FrontPage, Sharepoint, ODBC

[Bob Dobalina]

Ok... I've got a sinking feeling in my stomach, but I certainly hope someone
here can help me do away with it.

My company licenses Sharepoint as a platform for project management. We also
have information stored in an Oracle database which I want to pull into my
Sharepoint site. It uses ODBC connectivity. I heard about the Data View Web
Part and figured "neat! I can use FrontPage and standard database
connectivity to pull this information into a nice little web part!"... but
after numerous attempts to create my own connection string I am at a loss.
Then I read a post that seemed to say that Sharepoint is not compatible with
ODBC?!?!

I need some info and I'm hoping you all can help. Some questions:

1) Is this true? Is Sharepoint not compatible with an Oracle ODBC
connection? Say it aint so!

2) If the answer to #1 is "yes, sorry sucka" then what options do I have? Is
there some creative way to translate data stored in ODBC into a connection
format that will work with Sharepoint? In other words, if it aint out of the
box, is there a hack or work around that I can employ to achieve my goals?

3) Why the hell is this so difficult? Proprietary competitive bullsnap?

4) Can I swear up a storm in this forum? (I erred on the side of caution in
#3)

Any help will be greatly appreciated. I mean GREATLY appreciated!!

thanks!
- BD

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Try asking in news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices


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| Ok... I've got a sinking feeling in my stomach, but I certainly hope someone
| here can help me do away with it.
|
| My company licenses Sharepoint as a platform for project management. We also
| have information stored in an Oracle database which I want to pull into my
| Sharepoint site. It uses ODBC connectivity. I heard about the Data View Web
| Part and figured "neat! I can use FrontPage and standard database
| connectivity to pull this information into a nice little web part!"... but
| after numerous attempts to create my own connection string I am at a loss.
| Then I read a post that seemed to say that Sharepoint is not compatible with
| ODBC?!?!
|
| I need some info and I'm hoping you all can help. Some questions:
|
| 1) Is this true? Is Sharepoint not compatible with an Oracle ODBC
| connection? Say it aint so!
|
| 2) If the answer to #1 is "yes, sorry sucka" then what options do I have? Is
| there some creative way to translate data stored in ODBC into a connection
| format that will work with Sharepoint? In other words, if it aint out of the
| box, is there a hack or work around that I can employ to achieve my goals?
|
| 3) Why the hell is this so difficult? Proprietary competitive bullsnap?
|
| 4) Can I swear up a storm in this forum? (I erred on the side of caution in
| #3)
|
| Any help will be greatly appreciated. I mean GREATLY appreciated!!
|
| thanks!
| - BD

 

[Doug]

Bob:

I have the same issue. Did you ever come up with a solution?

Doug