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Subject:    Re: [freetds] Win32 - ODBC  Not OLEDB ?
From:       Jon Pounder <JonP () inline ! net>
Date:       2003-02-06 19:36:02
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oledb was only the MS flavour of the week for a short time and got replaced 
with ADO.
Both just adding extra layers of useless overhead onto something that was 
not broken to start with.


At 02:31 PM 2/6/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:37:31 -0500, "Craft, Steve"
><SCraft@LegionInsurance.com> wrote:
> >
> > Regarding the main thread  RE: freetds in win32
> >
> > Why use ODBC and not OLEDB on Win32?
>
>Just a small matter of programming.  The guts of FreeTDS compile on Win32
>now, meaning it can be adapted to other Win32 uses,  As Frank said, ODBC
>is used on unixy systems, despite its flaws, because nothing better saw
>wide adoption.  Making FreeTDS compile and run on Win32 systems involved
>making some allowances and adding some files to support the environment,
>but no (or almost no) new logic.
>
>I don't know where OleDB stands these days on the Great Strategy Radar,
>with .Net morphing from one Tuesday to the next.  To add OleDB glue around
>FreeTDS would be an interesting project for someone who likes that sort of
>thing, though.  In theory, it could provide Sybase servers as compatible
>back-ends to Microsoft servers, meaning they could be seen as "linked
>servers" and whatnot.
>
>--jkl
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