Re: ODBC-ing my app
- From: "Guillem" <guillemvicens-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 24 Aug 2005 01:12:46 -0700
Hi,
Craig Leidy wrote:
> I have a perspective customer who will buy my product
> if I ODBC it. He's very DataBase savvy but wants to use
> his own DB... not my Advantage DB.
I'm not sure if this is possible with Advantage DB, but i would suggest
not to use ODBC but ADO directly if you can. ODBC is already
deprecated. If you *really* need to use it you can do it through ADO,
but that will add an extra-layer which will slow it down. It depends on
your speed needs.
try to convince your possible client...
>
> I'm running D5... I don't even see the ADO component tab.
>
> Is this a big job?
Again, it depends on your needs, but it shouldn't be
> Is D5 ADO usable by today's DBs?
ADO is a Microsoft technology, included in MDAC, which is present in
all the newer Windows versions. If your client has older OS versions,
you still can download it from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/default.aspx, although i think it
doesn't work for W95. The ADO components provided by Borland are
nothing more than wrappers around Microsoft's ADO. If they're not
present in your D5, you could either upgrade or get a 3rd party ADO
component, like TBetterADO. Check Google for them
To use ADO with Advantage DB you'll need one of 2 things:
- An OLE DB provider: natural way to use ADO. Most databases have one,
usually downloadable from Internet
- An ODBC driver: not the best election, but still usable if no OLE DB
provider present.
>
> Are there any questions I've forgotten?
>
why did the chicken cross the street?
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