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DLL Talk / New ODBC Database plugin

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Duffer
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Posted: 29th Jun 2013 17:17 Edited at: 3rd Apr 2014 21:35
[IGNORE THE REST OF THIS THREAD - COULD NEVER GET THIS PLUGIN WORKING LIKE THE SQLITE PLUGIN SO ABANDONED IT]

On the back of the new SQLITE3 database plugin I\'ve created, I have also created a ODBC plugin.

For it to work, you will need to have already installed a suitable ODBC driver. You need to create an ODBC \"User Data Source\".

Anyway, this plugin is very much in need of testing and so I will call the current version v0.2 (25/07/2013).

Command Set


Let me know what you think.

[edit]

I can't post anything more here as it is too old but I can edit - I've had a go at a new ODBC plugin here:-

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=210586&b=8

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GIDustin
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Posted: 2nd Jul 2013 03:35 Edited at: 2nd Jul 2013 04:48
This wouldn't happen to be a response to my recent DBConn remake request, would it?

It has the commands I was looking for, and I am about to start a very SQL heavy project, so I will be back to this thread alot. The big thing I am concerned with is memory usage, so I will hammer that as well (an array of 15+ different SQL commands, one that will consistently throw errors, executed repeatedly and randomly for 5 minutes straight, that ought to test it)

Edit: Do you have a quick example for this? I am more accustomed to using connection strings, such as the following:

Duffer
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Posted: 2nd Jul 2013 10:09
@ GIDustin,

Good grief - did mention it was v0.1 didn't I? The getting column name command seems to throw it a spanner (recent discovery).

DBConnnect()....

The equivalent would be the ODBC Open Database Command.

So success = ODBC Open Database(1,"SQL-ODBC","GIDustinUser","FishIsMyPassword")

Personally, I prefer my SQLite3 plugin... no dependencies.

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GIDustin
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Posted: 2nd Jul 2013 16:18
@Duffer,

I know it's 0.1, but that doesn't mean I can't test it until it breaks!

I have gotten it to create a file and use that as the database, but I cannot get it to use ODBC to connect to a remote SQL server. The DBConnect is from the other ODBC DLL I am using, where you enter a connection string, such as:


I have tried using the above as my "database", and that didn't work. I also tried creating a DSN using the Windows ODBC manager and entering that for the database, but it just made an empty file with the same name.

If you could post just a very small snippet that shows connection to a remote SQL server, I will continue testing your plugin.
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Posted: 25th Jul 2013 03:46
@Duffer,

I got around to working on this again, and I cannot get it to return anything. It will connect to the database, and run the query, and the column names works, but it will not return any strings or integers. I saw that there might be an problem with indexes as brought up in your SQLLite plugin.

The code below is what I use, and it returns the proper column and row count, but the data retrieved is all empty. Am I doing something wrong?

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Posted: 25th Jul 2013 16:35 Edited at: 25th Jul 2013 16:35
@ GIDustin,

Nil desperandum. It was a bit of a rush job.

I aim to spruce it up over the weekend and hopefully the code will then work for you.

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GIDustin
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Posted: 25th Jul 2013 17:28
No problem man.

My next project requires an active ODBC connection to two different servers at the same time, and currently this plugin is the only one that supports that. Otherwise, I have to run two different plugins simultaneously, each plugin handling one server. It will be much easier to just convert to yours once it is looked over.
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Posted: 25th Jul 2013 17:30
No worries, leave it with me.

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Duffer
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Posted: 25th Jul 2013 18:11 Edited at: 20th Oct 2013 18:06
@ GIDustin,

Can you give v0.2 a try. I\'ve attached it here and also pegged it to the first post.

Let me know if it works at all. Fingers crossed.

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Posted: 26th Jul 2013 03:28
@Duffer,

Not sure that helped at all. I still cannot get any data returned, but now I cannot get the names of the columns apart from the first either. The rest return blank strings.
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Posted: 6th Aug 2013 22:50
@Duffer,

Any news on this?
Duffer
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Posted: 11th Oct 2013 23:16
@ GIDustin,

Sorry for the delay on this.

Please can you try the attached and see if it makes a difference?

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Duffer
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Posted: 20th Oct 2013 18:05 Edited at: 3rd Apr 2014 21:34
@ Moderators,

I give up - try as I might, I cannot get the ODBC Plugin to work - so please can you close this thread (I will concentrate on the SQLITE plugin now).

Sorry to GIDustin...

[edit]

hopefully this new version works better:-

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=210586&b=8

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