To create the sample reporting application in this book, or to use the Report Writer - ODBC Samples feature, you need to install and set up your ODBC driver. You also need to load the VisualAge Smalltalk ODBC support and need create a sample ODBC database. The sample database used in this book is a text database named SAMPLEDB.
To use the VisualAge ODBC access, load the VisualAge: Database, Common Samples, VisualAge: Database, ODBC, and VisualAge:Database, ODBC Samples features into your image.
Creating an ODBC text database
After you have set up your ODBC driver and data sources, you can create a sample database. To create a sample database:
The sample tables are created and stored in your database.