ODBC Connection

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Scott

Is there a way to simulate an ODBC connection on my desktop? Using
WindowsXP.

Thanks!

Scott
 
Rob said:
I may be missing something incredibly obvious here.... but why not just set
up an ODBC connection to your local (I assume) data source?
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I think Scott might be referring to something I've wished many times,
ie, when you're isolated for whatever reason from the network on which
your ODBC source resides.

For example, 95% of my Access work has to do with Oracle. Often, on
conferences, when I want to demonstrate how my apps work, I have a
laptop or convention supplied PC that is NOT connected to a local Oracle
database with similar structure to the one I work on or cannot connect
remotely.

In such situations, Personal oracle has been recommended to me, but I've
never bothered with it. Instead, what i do is use a wondrful screen
capture script (I forget the name of it) application in which I do
various things for my presentations and then "play it back" during my
presentations.

As far as "simulating" an ODBC connection in this context - I don't know
how, unless you copy the source to a local jet table and do things that
way. This would not work for me, in my case, because I never use linked
tables against ODBC sources, I use pass through queries.
 
I may be missing something incredibly obvious here.... but why not just set
up an ODBC connection to your local (I assume) data source?
 
Rob,

Thanks for responding! Yes, Tim is right; that is what I am referring to.
Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Scott
 
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