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On 2015-07-21 21:44, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> I cannot tell anything for that, I never used it. I dropped using
> DB-specific bindings a decade ago. ODBC does the job. There is no serious
> reasons to use DB-specific bindings.

Yes there is.
When the platform you are forced to work on
is not supporting odbc in a trustworthy way,
like Aix.

Unixodbc 'might' work on aix, but not so I
would put any serious business into it.

Oracle with binding to pro*c or OCI works well.
(clumpsy, but works)


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Björn