[Mono-dev] Doc for odbc

[tsureshkumar]

Rafael Teixeira wrote:
> That is because interest in the ODBC provider is low, as using
> specific providers is much better
> (performance/easy-of-use/easy-of-debugging wise).

When an application wants to interoperate with multiple databases 
simultaneously or when you want to migrate between different backend 
without migrating the middle tier, ODBC is one better solution. Anyway, 
that is not so easy in practical. If you want to use only a particular 
database backend, database specific provider is better as you minimize 
one layer of abstraction.

suresh.

> 
> What server are you using that possibly doesn't have a proper ADO.NET
> provider implemented? Currently PostgreSQL, MySQL, Firebase, MS SQL
> Server, Oracle and SQLLite providers exist and are maintained, DB2 and
> Sybase ones also exist but aren't so actively maintained and I may
> have forgotten some others, aside from the commercially available
> ones...
> 
> :)
> 
> On 8/10/05, Alfredo Jose Muela Romero <aioros at ono.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>        Hello,
>>
>>        I've been looking for doc about System.Data.Odbc trough
>>http://www.go-mono.com/docs/ and I have found none... I don't
>>see this as a bug but I thought it may be useful to say it.
>>
>>
>>
>>        Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>>                        Alfredo.
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