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Access Dbase Drivers For Mac

  • A quick history lessons for you young 'uns: Back in the 1980s, dBASE was the standard PC database application, until 1988 when Ashton-Tate, the developer, released dBASE IV. If you think Windows 8.
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For Unix and MacOS, ODBC drivers should be compiled againstunixODBC. Drivers compiled against iODBCmay also work, but are not fully supported.

After installation of the driver manager and driver, you will have toregister the driver in a odbcinst.ini file for it to appear in odbc::odbcListDrivers().

Microsoft Windows

Database Drivers

Windows is bundled with ODBC libraries; however, drivers for each databaseneed to be installed separately. Windows ODBC drivers typically include aninstaller that must be run to install the drivers in the properlocations.

Administration

The ODBC Data Source Administratorapplication is used to manage ODBC data sources on Windows.

Apple MacOS

Installation

  1. Install homebrew to install database drivers easily on MacOS

  2. Install UnixODBC, which is required for all databases
  1. Install common DB drivers (optional)
For

Setting up database connections

See the section with the same name in the Linux section.

Linux Debian / Ubuntu

Installation

The apt-get command can be used to install databasedrivers easily on Linux distributions that support it, such as Debian and Ubuntu.

  1. Install UnixODBC, which is required for all databases
  1. Install common DB drivers (optional)

Setting up database connections

On MacOS and Linux, there are two separate text files that need to be edited.UnixODBC includes a command-line executable called odbcinst, which can be used toquery and modify the DSN files. However, these are plain text files youcan also edit by hand if desired.

There are two different files used to set up the DSN information:

  • odbcinst.ini defines driver options

  • odbc.ini defines connection options

Mac

odbcinst.ini

This file contains the driver information, particularly the name of the driver library.Multiple drivers can be specified in the same file.

odbc.ini

This file contains the connection information, particularly the username, password, databaseand host information. The Driver line corresponds to the driver defined inodbcinst.ini.

See also: unixODBC without the GUI for more information and examples.

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Location

The DSN configuration files can be defined globally for all users of thesystem, often at/etc/odbc.ini or /opt/local/etc/odbc.ini. The file location depends onwhat option was used when compiling unixODBC; odbcinst -j can be used to findthe exact location. Alternatively, the ODBCSYSINI environment variable can beused to specify the location of the configuration files. Ex. ODBCSYSINI=~/ODBC

A local DSN file can also be used with the files ~/.odbc.ini and ~/.odbcinst.ini.

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Connecting to a Database in R

Databases can be connected by specifying a connection string directly, or withDSN configuration files.

Dbase Tutorial

Connection Strings

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Pass the connection parameters as arguments to the dbConnect() function.

For database-specific settings, go to the Databases section in the menu and look for the page that matches the desired database type.

DSN Configuration files

ODBC configuration files are another option to specify connection parameters; theyallow you to use a Data Source Name (DSN) to make it easier to connect to a database.

Dbase Download

For more information about how DSN can be used, check out the following articles in this site:

I have several old dbase IV applications that I still use. I have mostly transitioned from a PC (Win XP) to the Mac (OSX 10.5).
Is there a Mac application that will read dbase programs INCLUDING Memo fields? I've heard that filemaker pro will read the dbfs but am unable to get confirmation on the Memo fields.
I've also heard that there is a shareware application called Dosbox that will run Dos applications including complied dBase program files on the Mac but I really can't get much info about it.
My alternative is to keep the PCs running to use dBase and some Visio applications that I have - I would prefer to move everything to the Mac if I could.
TIA
Sam