Re: SAP DB

From: Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:21:15 +0000
Subject: Re: SAP DB
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> SAP DB is just another name for AdabasD from a programmers point of view- Ah, cool. > http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.odbc.php Well, yes. > " In addition to normal ODBC support, the Unified ODBC functions in PHP allow > you to access several databases that have borrowed the semantics of the ODBC > API to implement their own API. Instead of maintaining multiple database > drivers that were all nearly identical, these drivers have been unified > into a single set of ODBC functions." > > so the call interface to AdabasD/SapDB looks like ODBC, but you have > direct access to the database using PHP, you don't have to deal with > ODBC driver management and all the stuff if you don't want you AHA! Fantastic! > as said above: it is all there ... just the documentation could need > a little update ... Yes, As I didn't know that SAPDB = AdabasD I was unaware... In any case you have made my day, thank you :) All on bc-dev... hehehehe, + excellent +. and Mike, I'm going to use this. (as I suspect you will as well) _alex

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