[Qgis-user] ODBC in GRASS

[Radim Blazek]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Christine Schmidt <geo.guide at web.de> wrote:
> dear Radim,
> I am getting different error messages:
> Either a problem is stated what had let to close ODBC.exe and Windows wants to report that to Microsoft. Somethime even Python.exe shall be concerned. GRASS closes. That happens, when I try to test my database connection after having connected (with db.connect).

I have tried myself with the same result. I also tried to log with
ODBC tracer (I had to set tracer logging on in registry and reboot,
settings in manager GUI were not sufficient) and nothing was logged
for GRASS. It seems that the problem is in compilation / linking of
ODBC driver in GRASS.

> Or I get the error message "Cannot open data source" after apparently successful connecting with db.connect.

db.connect does not really do any connection to server, it just stores
default connection for current mapset.

Radim

> That happens when I try to use the database with v.external, db.in or v.in.ogr
> Try to open a MS Access database, what's not a problem in QGIS. Maybe it's a problem, that there is no need to Login to a an Access database (AFAIK) and GRASS expects this step ...
> thanks for reply, Christine
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Christine Schmidt <geo.guide at web.de> wrote:
>  ...
> > 2. ) Has anybody succeded to use the ODBC driver in a WinGRASS distribution (like the GRASS version installed with QGIS for Windows) ?
> > It's possible to open ODBC data bases in QGIS, I know.
> > Would like to do the same in GRASS. But I get only error messages and the ODBC driver crashes.
>
> What error message?
>  ...
>
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