We have an SQL database that stores shipping information from FedEx. Everytime a shipment is generated, the SQL table in the database is updated with that shipment's information. Once the data appears in the SQL table, is there a way to write the data from the SQL table to a table in FM as they appear in the SQL table?

Update on 02/24/2006: Found a topic about this very thing and all signs point to "not really". I read about a "robot" machine that Wim Decorte suggested and will look into that a little more.

Still will leave this topic open in case someone gets a spark of brilliance.

Edited February 24, 200619 yr by Guest

How is the data put into the SQL database? Whatever application does the INSERT INTO... command, could be set up to do the same SQL statement to a filemaker server via ODBC at the same time. You would have to basically mirror every database action for the SQL database onto the filemaker database this way.

That said, I use the "robot" machine that Wim suggested to sync our SQL server machine to my FM Server every 15 minutes... The data that I use doesn't really need to be updated any more frequently than 1 hour. (1 workday is fine in most cases...)

The data is written to the SQL database via a VB script that is created by a program run by the FedEx computer. Once a package is shipped, it is written to the SQL table. Subsequently, I would want that record written to a table in FM, in real time.

How have you setup your "robot" machine?