From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2003-11-24T02:05:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Vruby instead of VB ?

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Berger, Daniel wrote:

# > -----Original Message-----
# > From: Shashank Date [mailto:sdate@everestkc.net] 
# > Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 1:37 PM
# > To: ruby-talk ML
# > Subject: Using Vruby instead of VB ?
# > 
# 
# > 2. Interface with MS Access (possibly with MS SQL Server2K in 
# > future)
# 
# I *thought* you could use ODBC to interface with MS Access, but I'm not
# positive.  Otherwise, it ought to be possible via OLE (right?).  There's
# no specific DBD for either Access or SQL Server that I know of.


I'm almost 100% certain ODBC will do the trick.  Back in the bad old days, 
I did some web stuff with Access in development in Sybase in production.

# 
# >3. Print reports in landscape and portrait mode
# 
# Eek - now you're talking hardware interfaces - way out of my realm.
# 

This might help:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/32861


Chad