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From: nospam@toolsbase.com (Adrian Vickers)
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Date: 2000/03/09
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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.

-- 
Cheers,
Ade.

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