[Mono-list] ADO.NET

[Ben Adida]

Seems like setting up a generic DataAdapter API is indeed the right 
thing to do. We'll want specific adapters for PostgreSQL, BerkeleyDB, 
etc... I haven't taken a look at the specific Microsoft implementation, 
but is the idea here to recreate exactly the ADO.NET stuff? Or should we 
take a look at how to do DB interactions in general?

This is an honest question: there are some things worth cloning, and 
some things worth rethinking... but maybe the goal is pure cloning?

-Ben


A Rafael D Teixeira wrote:

> ADO.NET has two subtrees, one uses a specialized DataAdapter for 
> SqlServer, the other uses OLEDB, and can be used with specific OLEDB 
> provider or go thru ODBC to use any ODBC driver. I think our first 
> implementation can be a OLEDB-bridge to Linux-ODBC drivers and after 
> it many people can contribute managed OLEDB providers or specialized 
> DataAdapter.
>
> The SQLServer DataAdapter exists because:
>
> 1 - With less layers performance is a bit better
> 2 - As XML is the basis for ADO.NET dataset, this adapter can leverage 
> the XML support that SQL Server 2000 provides. That leads to a lot 
> more performance for hierarchical data (and believe me, most of my 
> Business Objects are deeply hierarchical).
>
> Rafael Teixeira
> Brazilian Developer
>