Hello- I''d like to allow 3rd-party access to data in my web app''s database. However, I don''t want the 3rd party software to have direct SQL access -- for security reasons. Is it reasonable to make this access via a Web Service and then write an ODBC adapter to communicate to that Web Service? There is a lot of documentation for -using- ODBC adapters, but I haven''t seen much on -writing- one. Does anyone have any leads I could check out? Also, ODBC seems more tuned to work with SQLs. Abstracting that into a Web Service seems a bit awkward. Is there another solution? The software I''m trying to connect to my database speaks ODBC and ADO.NET. (After reading, I realize this may be off-topic, though my app is written in rails. Any suggestions for a better group to ask would be welcome) Cheers, Jake -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.