Ingres Drivers?

Jay1b

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Hi

I am trying to connect to an ingres database on a UNIX server.

Using the Server Explorer Panel, i can connect to server easy enough, but when i click the add connection button, the datalink properties screen comes up, defaulting to the Connection Panel - which seems to only want to use SQL Server, so i click the provider tab and there is nothing there which mentions Ingres.

If i try to use the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers option then click next. It goes back to a slightly different Connection Panel, this one asks me for the data source name, but on the dropdown, there isnt any option that comes even remotely close to what i want. Although to be honest i am not entirely sure what i do want :(

Should there not be a Provider for Ingres? I have downloaded and installed all the drivers - that i know of.

Sorry i havent looked at databases in .NET before, so please dont laugh if i totally have the wrong idea. :)

Thanks.

PS - I wasnt sure whether this would go in the database area or not as its not actually a problem with the reading of the data - i havent got that far!
 
You should be able to connect using the generic OLE connection drivers. Youll just have to find out the correct syntax for the connection string.

I did a quick search on google for you, (I love google, where would I be in software engineering today without google), but I couldnt find anything useful except maybe this... : http://dbforums.com/arch/41/2002/10/545679???
 
Thanks. I have looked on the web, but to no avail. Those sites that do mention it, just do so in passing and i havent found a working example unfortunately :(

I think i will just harass CA tomorrow - perhaps they might know :)
 


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