Re: Invitation

In article <32e72211.1518623@gate.idg.no>, Nils.Myklebust@idg.no wrote: > > For the benefit of Delphi users that also use Informix databases: > > Well, it's a spam allright, but they do support Informix databases > through ODBC. This would have been fine if they haden't used DAO and > the Jet Engine for the purpose. This leads to very slow access unless > they are able to use ODBCdirect which bypass the JetEngine. > The current way of implementing ODBC connectivity via Microsoft based > products is to use RDO. Microsoft is however in the process of > changing all database access over to something they call ADO (ActiveX > Database Objects i think). The alternative is to call the ODBC API > directly. Someone who claims to have client/server products for MS > Windows will have to adress these things. If they don't I would be > *very* carefull using their products. > > PS: If you don't know what DAO, RDO and/or ADO is check out the > Microsoft web site. (You may want to search for these acronyms.) > > yosemite@netcom.com (Alan Denney) wrote: Not a spam. Actually, MS just released DAO 3.5 which does NOT use Jet to hit ODBC, it uses ODBCDirect. ODBCDirect works better than straight ODBC and is a much improved architecture, which yields better speed than ODBC 2.5/3.0. The ADO is a superset of DAO, and the two will be one product soon. David -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet