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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Weakness of Ada is expensive / security / etc. ? Anything else?
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 08:19:18 +0200
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On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:44:43 -0700 (PDT), Shark8 wrote:

> On Tuesday, July 21, 2015 at 4:02:57 PM UTC-6, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>> 
>> Unfortunately, ODBC works only half way,
>> because there is only half of a meaning
>> in SQL standard: try quoting a name portably.
> 
> Heck, try writing non-trivial CREATE statements [w/ relations and constraints].

ODBC was not designed to supersede SQL, unfortunately. You must fight SQL
and DB-specific variations of, regardless ODBC. And yes, ODBC has lots of
problems starting with basic types being dependant on 32 or 64-bit targets.
But, again, there is no serious reason to use DB-specific bindings.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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