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I wish in native Ms SQL (Express) capability, like SQLite or Postgre....
I think is a good improvement...

I agree Would be really nice! (better than via ODBC)

You can use ADOmate; it runs stable and is o.k.

As long as I remember it's a licensing problem why MS SQL server is not supported.

You will have to put some effort in it; some ado types are missing.

It would be nice if PB web site itself could host such 'external' libraries.

Same problem is with ORACLE; but here oci.dll can be used and runs seemless!

Oh, btw it's of course a valid wish; but things are going more in direction of programming little games than applications.

I'm going to try adomate.... but I think it's a shame that "things are going more in direction of programming little games than applications"... The powerfull of PB is in compact and fast stand-alone .exe It's a good thing for applications too, not for games only!!! ... I think.
I hate Visual Studio for these reasons... I prefer PB, always !!!
bye

You know that you can 'install' an ODBC driver 'on the fly', so that the customer is not involved?

But You can not do this without the user having admin rights.

But if I would write an MSI package via InnoSetup or something else, having admin right during installation should make OBC installation available.

Any other way with/without admin rights?


"things are going more in direction of programming little games than applications" - stop! This is my personal opinion!
I like PB as a great software for building little helper tools; there are many other customers here building full size, complex applications with it! At the moment I can see more movement in 3D and other libraries; no development concerning IDE or compiler. But that's all another thing...


Regards!

HanPBF wrote:You can use ADOmate; it runs stable and is o.k.

As long as I remember it's a licensing problem why MS SQL server is not supported.

You will have to put some effort in it; some ado types are missing.

It would be nice if PB web site itself could host such 'external' libraries.

Same problem is with ORACLE; but here oci.dll can be used and runs seemless!

Oh, btw it's of course a valid wish; but things are going more in direction of programming little games than applications.

Yes, we can use a "on the fly odbc structure", but there is a problem with admin right and I think ODBC is slow in performance than direct connection... I wish in MS SQL support again... ... again and again....
PS: but why you wrote about licensing problems? MS SQL Express is free... ?!?

MS SQL-Server ODBC Driver always ready installed on windows-system

You can added user-dsn without admin on fly...
Search forum for "add dsn"

P.S. MS-ODBC-Manager
64bit Appli.: c:\windows\system32\odbcad32
32bit Appli.: c:\windows\sysWOW64\odbcad32