15 Mar
2003
15 Mar
'03
11:48 a.m.
Tony Dietrich td@transoft.demon.co.uk wrote:
One of the first hurdles I'm facing is that the current project requires accessing a remote MySql server (remote, but on the same LAN).
At the simplest level, you can just ask MySQL to listen to a TCP port and use the MySQL client libraries on the calling machine to contact the server. Some languages (eg Scheme) even have native interfaces to database server TCP connections, so you don't need the client libraries, but I doubt that's true for the language you're using (does KDevelop mean you're using C++?).
Of course, to be a bit more portable, you could use ODBC via an ODBC connector for MySQL (eg unixodbc I think), but that might be more long-winded than you need.
Hope that helps,
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