FreeTDS Development Group

[Alex Hornby <alex AT anvil.co.uk>]

On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 10:39, Magnus Ahl wrote:
>       We have earlier tried various ODBC drivers, both with MySQL and other
>       RDBMS, but alas, the extra configuration and drop in efficiency really
>       made us want to use fast, native connections to databases using
>       libraries like libmysql and libtds.
> 
> 
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> 

For commercial databases/ODBC drivers the driver vendor can make a big
difference.

For ODBC to Sybase we found that one driver was almost 2 times faster
than its competitor at returning results.

BTW We found libodbc++ to be an excellent C++ interface to ODBC as well.
It is modelled on JDBC. Unfortunately the freetds ODBC driver doesn't
support all the functions necessary for libodbc++ yet.

Cheers,
Alex.