MC vs EXCEL

[thierry Douez]

  | 
  | > Hi again,
  | > 
  | > Is there a specialist of Excel on this list ?
  | > 
  | > Is there a way to do that with Excel (view / modify /
  | > save the database) or do I have to simulate a spreadsheet
  | > with MC ?
  | > 
  | > Thanks,JB
  | 
  | Hi JB
  | 
  | This could probably work :
  | 
  | Replace your flat-file database back-end by an SQL one (Access,
  | FileMaker, Valentina, MySQL, PostGreSQL,...) you can access trough an
  | ODBC driver in using the RevDB library on the Revolution CGI side and
  | Excel on the client-side (the recent issues of MS Excel are able to read
  | and write via ODBC).
  | 
  | Hope this help.

Hello,

a while ago,
i've used an odbc driver for excel which is part of standard windows (?)

but, i've done this with Perl and an odbc package ( library ).
Revolution has an access to odbc; so , I guess this should easily works

all the best, thierry