Re: Informix 5.0 vs. Java

Posted in 1997

William Harris — 16 Apr 1997 00:36:22 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <5hr5ie$9v1@proxy5.proxy.ozemail.net>, dion@multitask.com.au says... >| No, JDBC is not an extension to ODBC. It's a subset of ODBC. >It's a different beast. It has a protocol bridge included, but it can do >things ODBC can't. Specific examples, please. ODBC and JDBC have many similar constructs (eg, connections and statements). JDBC may have a "resultset" object that isn't directly attributable to any one ODBC construct, but which is equivalent to the rows returned by many ODBC functions. I admit to being new to JDBC (as many are) and await enlightenment. -- William Harris