FreeTDS Development Group

[christopher baus <christopher AT baus.net>]

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

Ok linked via DLL or .so.  The application does get re-released.  If new 
database support is needed a release is pretty much a requirement right now.  
I work with a product that has all drawbacks of ODBC/ADO and none of the 
benefits (ie database independence).  Wasn't my decision, but that's why I 
continue to subscribe to this list, as I would rather just link the freetds 
lib.  I would like to know an example where ODBC database independence was 
something other than a pipe dream.  

Right now using Microsoft's client tools, our database access is a bloated 
mess of unpredictable threading behaviors. 

christopher