LPM: DBI woes

Rich Bowen rbowen at rcbowen.com
Fri Feb 25 09:59:24 CST 2000


Janine Ladick wrote:
> 
> > I think I'm convinced that this is some sort of bizarre problem with the
> > MS Access driver. I certainly don't get this every-other behavior with
> > MySQL. This code was just supposed to work on MS Access, and, of course,
> > MS has chosen to do some things differently.
> 
> David Hempy was having similar weird results with the OBCD driver
> connecting to FoxPro databases.  I think his solution was to dump
> DBI and go with something else...you might want to email him to ask
> more about his solution.

Unfortunately, using Win32::ODBC is not an option in my case, because it
has to work on Linux too. I don't have the time (or the patience) to
maintain two versions of the code. *sigh*

Rich
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