We curently have Minisoft's ODBC driver, and while its use of TPI is not all
I would wish it to be, it does provide excellent speed for retrievals. It
also accesses ksam, flat files and self-describing files ( like Powerhouse
subfiles ) through the use of schema files you create using its schema
editor.

And it has an extremely low price!

Definitely worth taking a look at.


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Chong Sr. Systems Analyst (MRP/ERP)
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Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 11:56 AM
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Subject: Re: ODBC (was: data extraction tool for TurboImage)


Hi, Ron

Ross Warner <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
> So we end up with no support
> any longer for TurboImage and no "path" of connection for Sql or ODBC for
> the TurboImage data without spending much more than we can cost justify.
It
> was NOT good info from HP at all.
>
I believe ODBC/32 from minisoft does not require to connect IMAGE/SQL at
all.
My understand,  It interprets SQL/ODBC call to own IMAGE call,
and connect IMAGE database directly not by DBE.

I do not have performance comparison chart between ODBC vendors.
But, Perhaps you will see performance gain for not using HP IMAGE/SQL
DBE connection.

Cheers
Peter C.