From: nospam@toolsbase.com (Adrian Vickers)
Subject: Re: Ada and WIMPs
Date: 2000/03/09
Date: 2000-03-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: 8a571f$r2m$1@wanadoo.fr
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Pascal Obry of p.obry@wanadoo.fr wrote on Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:37:36 +0100
in comp.lang.ada:
>
> David Botton a �crit dans le message
> <3shx4.2147$Z_4.199778@news4.usenetserver.com>...
> >On Win32, you would be better off using ADO as you would then have access
> to
> >not just ODBC, but any other OLE Provider (MAPI, LDAP, etc).
>
> The question here is do you want to be Win32 only or cross-platforms ?
>
> For Win32 only it seems fine to use ADO, but otherwise I'll stay with plain
> ODBC which should be easily portable to others platforms, right ?
>
Agreed - ODBC, whilst not the most friendly DB access system, is
nonetheless relatively portable, and so long as the driver exists is
capable of accessing a wide variety of DB engines.
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Cheers,
Ade.
If at first you fail, cheat. Repeat until caught, then lie.
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-06 0:00 Ada and WIMPs Ade Vickers
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
2000-03-07 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
2000-03-09 0:00 ` Adrian Vickers [this message]
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-03-07 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Jeff Creem
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Ade Vickers
2000-03-17 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
2000-03-20 0:00 ` Jeff Susanj
2000-03-20 0:00 ` David Starner
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