| Re: dataminer - where to start [message #31679] |
Mon, 12 August 2002 07:17 |
Robert Stockwell
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Registered: October 2001
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Olaf Stetzer wrote:
> Robert Stockwell schrieb:
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>> My question is where do I find documentation on dataminer,
>> and what functions/classes etc are available?
>> Is dataminer a seperate package that I buy from RSI?
>> Has any one used this? Has it been discontinued by RSI?
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> First, like others said before, DM is a product from RSI, and
> IMHO quiet expensive for the "little" functionality added.
> Ther ODBC drivers are third party software, the DM itself
> contains more ore less only two objects, one for a ODBC
> connection and one for recordsets (very much like in VB).
> Although you can do quiet a lot with that I find it very
> limited. I have written a bunch of functions to ease the
> use of these objects (if anyone is intereseted please
> email me).
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> We are using mysql here, it comes with own ODBC-drivers
> which work nicely with the windows version of IDL. The
> DM was not available for Unix with IDL versions prior to 5.5.
> Unfortunately I didn't get it to work with mysql yet. Other
> databases for which the ODBC-drivers are shipped with the DM) may
> work though.
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> Docs: If you have a working installation of IDL you should be able
> to read the pdf version of the Dataminer Manual which is normally
> installed togehter with the other manuals.
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> Olaf
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Thanks Olaf (and Mark Hadfield) for the response. Dataminer
looks exactly like what I will need to do. Thanks for the
tip about the pdf file. That is a tremendous help. It didn't
occur to me to look under /docs for that info. I had searched
through the help system to no avail.
Cheers,
bob
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