Database access

[Oliver Friedrich]

Hallo LV'ers,

I'm looking for toolkits for connecting LV 5.1.1 to MS ACCESS databases.
I've found two products:

1. LabVIEW Database connectivity toolset price:1395?
2. Xon DAO 1.5 price:410?

My questions:

What other toolsets for this purpose do you know?
What are the pros and cons of each toolset?
Does anyone have experience with Xon DAO. What's the big difference between
it and LabVIEW (see the price).
Where can I download a Connectivity toolset demo version to test it for a
while?

Please give me some advice for my decision, which one to buy, maybe the
cheap one will be the most expensive in the long run, because I need twice
the development time. It is no hobby application, we want to earn money with
it 😉

Thank you

Oliver Fr
iedrich

[Dave Karon]

You could use Access and run it as an ActiveX server.
Dave Karon

"Oliver Friedrich" wrote in message news:wNra7.9020$LN3.1144021@monolith.news.easynet.net...
> Hallo LV'ers,
>
> I'm looking for toolkits for connecting LV 5.1.1 to MS ACCESS databases.
> I've found two products:
>
> 1. LabVIEW Database connectivity toolset price:1395?
> 2. Xon DAO 1.5 price:410?
>
> My questions:
>
> What other toolsets for this purpose do you know?
> What are the pros and cons of each toolset?
> Does anyone have experience with Xon DAO. What's the big difference between
> it and LabVIEW (see the price).
> Where can I download a Connectivity toolset demo version to test it for a
> while?
>
> Please give me some advic
e for my decision, which one to buy, maybe the
> cheap one will be the most expensive in the long run, because I need twice
> the development time. It is no hobby application, we want to earn money with
> it 😉
>
> Thank you
>
> Oliver Friedrich
>
>

[Christopher Mitchell]

With the Database Connectivity Toolset you will get great technical support. This service can be invaluable when deadlines are looming....

[BruceMoyer]

Oliver,

I have used the Xon DAO toolset (ver. 1.50), and I would not recommend purchasing it. This toolset was poorly written for programmatic use. When an error occurs in some of the toolset VIs instead of just passing the error out, it pops up a dialog box (which is in German) that the user must click to continue execution. This is very annoying and very unprofessional. There is no easy way to get around these error dialog boxes as they are coded in the DLL which the VIs call.

Vinny Burzi

[ebarnett]

I don't know about the new NI toolkit; however I have been using the
previous version SQL Toolkit 3.0 in conjunction with a large Access database
project. The initial learning curve was hard; however I am very pleased with
the results.

Ernest Barnett
Test Engineer/Consultant

"Oliver Friedrich" wrote in message
news:wNra7.9020$LN3.1144021@monolith.news.easynet.net...
> Hallo LV'ers,
>
> I'm looking for toolkits for connecting LV 5.1.1 to MS ACCESS databases.
> I've found two products:
>
> 1. LabVIEW Database connectivity toolset price:1395?
> 2. Xon DAO 1.5 price:410?
>
> My questions:
>
> What other toolsets for this purpose do you know?
> What are the pros and cons of each toolset?
> Does anyone have experience with Xon DAO. Wh
at's the big difference
between
> it and LabVIEW (see the price).
> Where can I download a Connectivity toolset demo version to test it for a
> while?
>
> Please give me some advice for my decision, which one to buy, maybe the
> cheap one will be the most expensive in the long run, because I need twice
> the development time. It is no hobby application, we want to earn money
with
> it 😉
>
> Thank you
>
> Oliver Friedrich
>
>