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Subject: Re: [freetds] Win32 - ODBC Not OLEDB ?
From: Peter Harvey <pharvey () codebydesign ! com>
Date: 2003-02-06 21:46:35
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> Hmm. Maybe I should write something up for the www site, under
> "Entertainment" or something, called "ODBC Considered Harmful". It would
> save us both time, eh? :-)
I think there are too many people who comment negatively about ODBC with
out really knowing enough about it.
Its not;
- for non-tabular data (some not-ported MS standards handle this)
- the fastest method to access data (use your db API for that)
Its good (or even great) at;
- providing a portable API (cross-database and cross-platform)
- leveraging an existing standard (arguably the most commomly used
standard for accessing relational data)
- optionaly providing version mapping and driver plugabiliy via a driver
manager
The main problem with ODBC for most people comes from poor drivers not
from the ODBC standard itself.
Having said this I am VERY happy to see continued improvement of the
FreeTDS ODBC driver and if someone decides to create the an OLE-DB
compat. sub-system for Linux/UNIX then great. But lets not trample all
over ODBC. :)
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
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