Error in opening DB using QSqlQuery

[mzimmers]

@hskoglund : did the insertion of those two lines, and copied the files to /usr/local/etc. Same results.

Configuring this isn't exactly easy, is it?

[hskoglund]

Believe me, it's even trickier on the Mac, I had some grand plans to make my db library support Windows, Linux and Mac (that's what Qt is all about after all). But to get ODBC work on Linux took maybe 2 or 3 nights, but on the Mac; easily one week :-(

Anyway, perhaps it's time to try another .so file, that post above mentions libodbcmyS.so...

[mzimmers]

What file are you referencing above?

[hskoglund]

Hi more google tips
it mentions running odbcinst, e.g. "odbcinst -i -d -f /home/username/odbc/mysql"
I don't remember having to do that for SQLServer but perhaps MySQL requires it

[hskoglund]

@mzimmers About libodbcmyS.so that I mentioned above, it seems for MySQL there are actually 2 kinds of .so files: one driver flavored and one setup flavored, and that libodbcmyS.so is the latter.
Also, it seems both flavors are needed to be listed in odbcinst.ini.
Sorry for the confusion. Actually that last link seems pretty helpful, not that old (only 10 years!). Also it mentions running isql to test the connection (I remember the isql program as being very helpful for my debugging.)

[mzimmers]

OK, well I still don't have a libodbcmyS.so. I do have a libmyodbc5S.so; could this be it? And, if so, how am I supposed to list both in the obdcinst.ini file?

Am I using the isql command correctly here?

root@debian:/etc# isql MySQL-test
[ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect

[hskoglund]

Yeah, the isql command seems right and the error message seems familiar too :-) (And the error is outside the realm of Qt)

About Qt and MySql: you do know there is a probably simpler way to connect to your MySQL db: not going through the ODBC API, but instead loading Qt's plugin for MySQL directly, by using ::addDatabase("QMYSQL")?

[mzimmers]

@hskoglund yeah, I've already gotten the QMYSQL plugin working. I'm working with the ODBC stuff for the sake of my education, in case my next job lands me in a Windows environment.

It's strange how all the web pages on ODBC are so old...it is considered obsolescent technology now?

Anyway, I think I'm done for the night. I'll tackle this again tomorrow. Thanks for all your help.

[mzimmers]

I'm going to do some clean up before I attempt more troubleshooting. I've removed the duplicates of the .ini files, so they only exist in /etc now. Also, something's wrong with my configuration:

root@debian:/# odbcinst -j
unixODBC 2.3.4
DRIVERS............: /etc/odbcinst.ini/odbcinst.ini
SYSTEM DATA SOURCES: /etc/odbcinst.ini/odbc.ini
FILE DATA SOURCES..: /etc/odbcinst.ini/ODBCDataSources
USER DATA SOURCES..: /etc/odbc.ini
SQLULEN Size.......: 8
SQLLEN Size........: 8
SQLSETPOSIROW Size.: 8

How do I delete those incorrect entries? I tried the uninstall, but that doesn't seem to work.

Thanks.

[mrjj]

• ..ODBC are so old...it is considered obsolescent technology now?

No, but the web made it less important as the browsers are now the clients and they need not the virtualization/abstraction that ODBC offer since its all html/json etc so maybe its not so high profile anymore.

[mzimmers]

Well, I think I have it solved. Not sure what I did differently, but here are the relevant files:

/etc/odbcinst.ini

[MySQL-test]
Driver=/usr/local/lib/libmyodbc5a.so
Setup=/usr/local/lib/libmyodbc5s.so
Description=Connector/ODBC Driver DSN
FileUsage=1
UsageCount=1

/etc/odbc.ini

[MySQL-test]
Description=MySQL test database
Driver=MySQL-test
SERVER=127.0.0.1
USER=root
PASSWORD=<PASSWORD-GOES-HERE>
PORT=3306
DATABASE=test
Option=3

Notes:

1. I created these files using templates with the exact same data in them, and calling "odbcinst -i -s -f odbcinst.template" and "odbcinst -i -f -f odbc.template".
2. I had to put the password to my root account in my odbc.template file. Not sure I like this, but I don't know what the alternative would be.
3. there is nothing in the directory /etc/ODBCDataSources, and I don't have an .odbc.ini file in my home directory.
4. the two pages that helped the most are:
   unixodbc
   debian
   And, it works:

mzimmers@debian:/etc$ isql MySQL-test
+---------------------------------------+
| Connected!                            |
|                                       |
| sql-statement                         |
| help [tablename]                      |
| quit                                  |
|                                       |
+---------------------------------------+
SQL>  

Thanks to everyone who helped...as I said, I'm not sure what I did between the start and the end of this, but it's working now, both with isql and my Qt example.