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Function documentation Connection of Database Applications Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

The database system has several interfaces with which you can connect database applications to a MaxDB database instance.

Features

Interfaces

Interface

Prerequisites

Configuration

Applications

ODBC

Microsoft Windows: ODBC Driver Manager 3.52 or above and MDAC 2.7 or above

UNIX/Linux: Link directly to the application or use a driver manager (unixODBC 2.0.9 or iODBC 3.0.5)

Microsoft Windows: ODBC Data Source Administrator

UNIX/Linux: Driver manager or manually

All applications that can use ODBC data sources

JDBC

JDBC 2.0: JRE 1.2 or JDK 1.2 (application development)

JDBC 3.0: JRE 1.4 or JDK 1.4 (application development)

com.sap.dbtech.jdbc.DriverSapDB

All applications that can use JDBC data sources

Perl using DBD::MaxDB

MaxDB SQLDBC SDK 7.5.00.14 or above

Perl 4 (5.6.1)

Perl DBI (1.2.1)

dbi:MaxDB:/<database_server>[:port]/<database_name>

Perl applications

Perl using DBD::ODBC

MaxDB ODBC driver

Perl

ODBC (see above)

dbi:ODBC:DSN

Microsoft Windows: ODBC Data Source Administrator

UNIX/Linux: Driver manager or manually

Perl applications

Python using sapdb.sql

Python 1.5 - 2.3

 

Python applications

MaxDB SQLDBC SDK

 

 

Application and interface development

See also Interfaces.

Example

·        Example: Connecting OpenOffice to MaxDB Using ODBC (Windows)

·        Example: Connecting OpenOffice to MaxDB Using JDBC (Linux)

 

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