Subject Re: [firebird-support] Connect to FB2 with Excel and MS Word
Author Martijn Tonies
> I'm trying to use the FB ODBC driver to connect MS Office applications
> to an existing FB2 database. I can create the DSN (and the Test
> Connection button says all is well) but when I try to actually use
> this connection, the Office app says "Unable to obtain list of tables
> from the data source".
>
> Does anyone have any advice?

Well, there's "some" error. You can turn on ODBC trace logging
to see what the driver is returning. You can do this from the
ODBC Control Panel applet.

Martijn Tonies
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