# Do clients needs ODBC drivers

**URL:** <https://forum.servoy.com/t/do-clients-needs-odbc-drivers/7543>\
**Category:** Classic Servoy\
**Created:** [May 22, 2007, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/do-clients-needs-odbc-drivers/7543 "2007-05-22T12:40:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Vince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@Vince](https://forum.servoy.com/u/Vince)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/do-clients-needs-odbc-drivers/7543/1 "2007-05-22T12:40:29Z")

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Hi,

I’ve a solution that has a table comming from on odbc datasource.

I’m only using servoy developper right now and installing the odbc driver is painfull.

My question his : should I also install that odbc driver on each clients ?

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**Author:** ![IT2Be](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dc4da7/32.png) [@IT2Be](https://forum.servoy.com/u/IT2Be)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 12:46pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/do-clients-needs-odbc-drivers/7543/2 "2007-05-22T12:46:12Z")

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No, under normal conditions all connections are made from the server.

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**Author:** ![patrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@patrick](https://forum.servoy.com/u/patrick)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/do-clients-needs-odbc-drivers/7543/3 "2007-05-22T13:03:30Z")

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Does it really have to be ODBC? As far as I know, you have two middle ware products working when you try to access ODBC from Java. Isn’t there a JDBC driver for your database?

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**Author:** ![Vince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@Vince](https://forum.servoy.com/u/Vince)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/do-clients-needs-odbc-drivers/7543/4 "2007-05-22T13:10:48Z")

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My database is ODBC only, and you have to say it fast and crossing fingers, because it has a proprietary odbc driver.

Othrerwise can servoy import xml like filemaker does (I mean is it built-in, I can’t write an xml parser)

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**Author:** ![ROCLASI](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/forum.servoy.com/roclasi/32/4371_2.png) [@ROCLASI](https://forum.servoy.com/u/ROCLASI)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/do-clients-needs-odbc-drivers/7543/5 "2007-05-22T13:42:23Z")

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FYI, Servoy 3.x comes with an XML reader plugin. Or else use the commercial XML plugin from Patrick.