Re: Best ODBC for Informix 7.20.UC2

Nils Myklebust wrote: > > fbouquet@cornut.fr (Frederic Bouquet) wrote: > > :David Frenkiel writes: > :<< > :Are you saying that one should avoid ODBC altogether or only when > :speed is a concern? > :>> > : > :In this case, when speed is a concern. > > Have you realy tested Informix I-Net/Connect for speed against > OpenLink or other equivalent server based ODBC drivers? > I haven't yet done the full formal testing, but I think you will find > such ODBC drivers at least as fast as I-Net/Connect and possibly > faster. > Do you have other experiences you can share with us? That would be > interesting to here. > > :--->> On our site a SHAREWARE SQL Query Tool <<------- > :--->> & a middleware much faster than SQL*Net <<------- > :Frederic BOUQUET Client/Server & SQL RDBMS > :email: fbouquet@cornut.fr http://www.cornut.fr/ > > Nils.Myklebust@idg.no > NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway > My opinions are those of my company > The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org I am using Openlink ODBC drivers for simple *and* complex queries with Informix Online 5. Speed was never an issue. I get a query result almost as fast as login directly to the server and running the query using isql. I run into other problems with Openlink, some of them frustrating because of poor documentation, but I solved one by one. -- Gabriel Beccar-Varela gabriel.beccar-varela@ucop.edu -----