Forum Post: RE: how to establish ODBC connection

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Paul, Thanks for the answers. This is great, as we do have a SQL system that we might want to build some "checks" against our progress DBs before they move forward with a process on that external system. Steph From: Paul Koufalis [mailto:bounce-pkoufalis@community.progress.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 9:35 AM To: TU.OE.RDBMS@community.progress.com Subject: RE: how to establish ODBC connection RE: how to establish ODBC connection Reply by Paul Koufalis You only need a DataServer product if you want a Progress 4GL program to access a non-Progress database in a somewhat transparent fashion. Accessing the Progress database from a SQL client is supported natively via the SQL-92 compliant _sqlsrv2 server executable. The "SQL Client Access" is right smack in the middle of the page on the download site. You can't miss it - just poke around a bit. It is NOT in the same place as your other licenses. A DSN is an ODBC data source definition. Control Panel - ODBC Administrator - system DSN - new. Stop receiving emails on this subject. Flag this post as spam/abuse.

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