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From: David Botton <david@botton.com>
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I didn't pick up at the time you were talking about an Ada standard. 
ADO is just a way to offer an abstraction on Win32 (of course you get 
thick fairly easy to use Ada bindings to ADO via GNATCOM and even 
simpler via GWindows.Databases).

While I am not thrilled with the idea of create Ada standards for 
bindings to complex externals systems, a good look at the ADO way of 
doing things would certainly be a prerequisite to creating such a 
standard.

David Botton


On 2004-11-27 03:59:53 -0500, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" 
<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> said:

> On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:36:42 -0500, David Botton wrote:
> 
>> You have that on Win32 with GWindows.Databases it uses ADO which 
>> abstracts OLE-DB, ODBC, LDAP, and Mail, and much more.
> 
> But in some sense ADO is even worse than SomeDB-binding. At least databases
> are more or less platform independent. In my view ADO is just as SQL, ODBC
> and anything else. I would consider ADO as yet another database interface
> to be abstracted away by our Ada(tm) way. So I am for Ada.Database in the
> standard.
> 
>> On 2004-11-26 04:15:06 -0500, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" 
>> <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> said:
>>> What about support for MS-Access, MS-SQL server, Oracle?
>>> 
>>> And more importantly why that crappy SQL over and over again? I would like
>>> to see a high level Ada.Database[.Relational?] package totally independent
>>> on what happens beneath.