I know I’ve been a bit harsh lately 
but you all know I’m well intentioned and that you should always take my critics positively. But when time comes when I see something great, well I won’t restrain myself from telling it.
And a few days ago, HostileFork has whispered me that in a future release of Rebol 2, you will have nothing less than ODBC, SSL/HTTPS, in fact it is as if you had Rebol Command for FREE. That is not only great, that is unexpected so I say Wow to RT!
What you can do with ODBC ? Well you can edit MS Access Database with your Rebol 500Ko (instead of dozens of megabytes just for the GUI part, of course the data size will stay as big) or you can use secure SSL with twitter API and other webservices, only imagination is the limit :).
Just have all of us to wait for it except if you join Altme World or Qtask at the moment as it is in beta stage.
Update January 19th: From the link given by Petr
http://www.rebol.com/docs/v2-7.html
* View/Pro features enabled: allowing SSL, ODBC, and encryption
* Adds R2/Forward mezzanine functions (from Brian Hawley)
* Re-enables installation and proper view-root startup (appdata dir on Win32)
* Install and uninstall added to ViewTop GUI panels
* Fixes LOAD with PORTS that return strings to be loaded as blocks.
* Fixes Decode-CGI for url-encoded variables (e.g. used by Flash)
* Fixes Strict-not-equal? of integers and adds != and !== operators
admin:
Edoc:
Just in case you did not notice - REBOL 2.7.7. is now oficially released. The plan is to get R2 updated the same way as R3, which means - on a monthly base. R2 2.7.8. is already scheduled for the February release.
Release notes: http://www.rebol.com/docs/v2-7.html
Great !!! Will try to find time some time to look at it, much busy on other stuffs right now
would like to see a working example/tutorial of a dsn less connection to a microsoft access database.
I tried the example in the “database access” web page, but it didn’t work,
it complained about:- ‘odbc has no value
also I don’t know about the other part of the connection string to use.
when I use a DSN approach, it works.
Can you give the link of the page you are mentioning ?
That’s true DNS connection works, DNSLess connection generates an error. I asked a question on stackoverflow but nobody seems to answer yet or nobody knows why.
It is normal for ODBC (at least wherever I have used it) to require a DSN, which serves a similar purpose to JDBC’s jdbc:// URLs. It isn’t enough to say “use Access”. You have to tell your application where to find the Access db it is using.
In the Powerbuilder app we use at my job, both the ODBC DSN and the JDBC URL are contained in configuration files.
You can connect to an ODBC database without creating a DNS in ODBC panel see
http://www.rebol.com/docs/database.html#no-dsn
though I didn’t try it yet
I tried, it works (but not with DNSless connection)