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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    ODBC on Linux
From:       Bavo De Ridder <bavo () ace ! ulyssis ! student ! kuleuven ! ac ! be>
Date:       1999-04-08 8:45:05
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Hello,

In the thread "AddressBook database", someone mentioned that OLE DB runs on top
of ODBC. This is not true. Right, Microsoft has build a wrapper around ODBC so
it looks like a OLE DB provider, but this is just a temporarily solution to
ease transition to OLE DB/ADO. If you use Access, MS SQL, .... there are
already native OLE DB drivers.

The main advantage of OLE DB is that you only pay for what you get. If you are
accessing a flat file database (a mailbox), you will only load the (small) OLE
DB framework and the native text-driver, nothing more.

Imagina you could do this in KDE: you have an SQL database with your customers
email, addres, .... and a plain mailbox (KMail). With OLE DB you can get a list
of al the email-addresses of customers who haven't sended you a mail in the
last 4 weeks.

Or: OLE DB is *very* different from ODBC and should be considered something new.


BDR

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