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  • From: Jon Pounder <JonP AT inline.net>
  • To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Win32 - ODBC Not OLEDB ?
  • Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 17:00:06 -0500

At 01:56 PM 2/6/2003 -0800, you wrote:

>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.

Pete never said MS got odbc right. :) There is no mdac on unix, only an isolated set of the files actually needed.

The datasource model is one of the best features of ODBC. It allows application code not to know or care the location or type of the database dealt with as long as it supports a minimum set of features (what the minimum is is a bone of contention, but so is the sql syntax supported so that is nothing new).

linking directly to a db lib is a very shortsighted approach since you are locked into that one database forever with an application.

Has anyone ever seen MS release a new version of something that is not drastically more resource hungry than the last one ? You would think they could balance new functionality with ways to make the code more efficient, and come out almost even, but that is never the case.


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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