Re: Silly question time -- with answer (long)

In article <353dddb3.9434687@gate.idg.no>, Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com (Nils Myklebust) wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Apr 1998 10:55:06 -0600, richard_kofler@edvg.co.at wrote: > > >Everybody outside Europe tries to avoid ANSI databases, am I right ??? > > Why on earth do you need a mode ansi database just because you are in > Europe? We have never used it and never will. Mode ansi is just too > stupid with too many crazy limitations. You describe many yourself. > > Why do you think you have to use mode ansi? > I am interested in case I should meet a customer one day who wants > one. > At our site, it is a matter of "tools" They are using IEF/COMPOSER The main reason for mode ANSI ist that the tool needs to be inside a transaction all the time, which you are with mode ANSI. I have nothing to do with development, but exactly so I have been told.... ( I wonder why it should be impossible to simply add a "BEGIN WORK", but maybe it is not in the generated code, I just don't know) Regards Dick Richard Kofler EDVg-debis Systemhaus Vienna, Austria e-mail: richard_kofler@edvg.co.at > Nils Myklebust > NM Data AS > Norway > E-mail: Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com > FAQ at: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html > (Now with ODBC info under "Third party products".) > -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Now offering spam-free web-based newsreading