Hi,
> On or about Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 05:18:40PM -0700, Tom Samplonius typed:
> >On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Roger Burton West wrote:
> >> It's a shame that there doesn't seem to be a C/C++ library comparable
to
> >> DBI, but until there is, I think this is an avenue worth investigating.
> > Of course there is: ODBC.
>
> My experience of ODBC is that C(++)/ODBC is significantly slower than
> Perl/DBI; this was why I said "comparable". This only gets worse if the
> data are held on a remote server. Others' findings may of course differ.
Erm, ODBC only establish a connection between the Windows API and the
database application. The default ODBC drivers that comes with Windows
95/98/NT *is* very slow yes. They are also *very* old, and even
exploitable.
http://www.microsoft.com/data/ features the newest ODB drivers, which is
very good (the latest versions of course). Futhermore, you DO NOT need to
use ODBC for any database connection if you do nto want to. If speed or
performance of a ODBC connection is of concirn, it cann be bypassed
completely. Both from VBScript / JScript for web applications, right
through to programming direct socket calls.
Regards,
Chris Knipe
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