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  • From: christopher baus <christopher AT baus.net>
  • To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Win32 - ODBC Not OLEDB ?
  • Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 13:56:44 -0800

>My fave thing about UNIX is how it leverages past work and is mostly based
>upon great standards. I dislike the way MS completely replaces "standard"
>after "standard".
>
>Now if only there was a real effort to refine/improve the ODBC standard
>perhaps then more people would be happy with it and we can do a little less
>reinventing the wheel and a little more bullet-proofing.
>
>Peter

I hardly ever reply here, but I will say I dislike the datasource model in
ODBC. Having customers install and deal with MDAC all the time is a pain.
I'd rather just link directly to the db lib. ADO is worse. It is horribly
boated big which spits out SEHs all the time under normal situations.

christopher






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