Chapter 6: Cab Database Connector - CAB A+ Series Programming Manual

Chapter 6: cab DataBase Connector

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cab DataBase Connector commands
Special license needs to be bought to use this functionality
cab Database Connector
This software allows in connection with a printer of the cab A-series, A+ series etc via TCP/IP, to print
a label which contains data from a SQL compatible data base. The data is recalled from the printer
through its attached keyboard.
A+ series, Mach 4 and the printers with built in network interface (X2 board) need to be activated with
a license code. Further information about this procedure can be requested by the cab resellers.
With the methods up to now it was necessary to load databases in a fixed format on a memory card
into the printer.
This has the disadvantage that the data has to be converted, they never had been actual and the
access time became slower the more the database was growing.
Changings in the central data base required an update on the printers memorycard to have
access to the actual data.
cabDatabaseConnector works different. It can recall data form and existing database somewhere in
the network. Changes, which are made in this database, are immediately available, if a new label
is printed.
The care expenditure for the memory card is no longer needed. The printers can be somewhere in the
network. - Theoretically they might be anywhere in the world.
The following components are necessary:
• Printer with X2 mainboard
• A+ series, Mach 4 etc need the license code activation
• Compact Flash memory card recommended
• An input device (USB barcode scanner or USB keyboard)
• cab DataBase Connector software
The cab SQLClient - implemented in the printers - can have access the database server
directly on-line through the cab Database Connector and Ethernet TCP/IP.
All data bases with ODBC or a Microsoft OLEDB interface can be accessed.
With cabData Base Connector Server several tables and fields can be queried at the same time.
Multiple predefined labels can be selected through the table of contents of the memory card.
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