2. Getting started

2 Getting started

2.1 Setting things up

As the Erlang ODBC application is dependent on third party products there are a few administrative things that needs to be done before you can get things up and running.

  • The first thing you need to do, is to make sure you have an ODBC driver installed for the database that you want to access. Both the client machine where you plan to run your erlang node and the server machine running the database needs the the ODBC driver. (In some cases the client and the server may be the same machine).
  • Secondly you might need to set environment variables and paths to appropriate values. This may differ a lot between different os's, databases and ODBC drivers. This is a configuration problem related to the third party product and hence we can not give you a standard solution in this guide.
  • The Erlang ODBC application consists of both Erlang and 登录查看完整内容