"Reinhard Brandstaedter" <reinhard.brandstaedter_at_ams-engineering.com> wrote
in message news:c6lh1u$1k3d$1_at_ulysses.news.tiscali.de...
> Hi!
>
> Referring to the Oracle online documentation the oracle ODBC drivers are
> announced as thread-safe. One of our software vendors claims they are
> not and that there are some problems. Since his product mainly is based
> on Microsoft Technology (Exchange Server) he recommends using MS SQL as
> database.
> We are using Oracle 9i (and soon 10g) and I'm planning to use the
> original Oracle ODBC drivers to connect to our databases.
> Are there any concerns about thread safety I should worry about?
> I just want opinions since I don't want to introduce another DBMS just
> for this new application. Any experiences with thread safety and ODBC
> drivers?
None whatsoever, I have tried to get support out of vendors in the past when
running with ODBC drivers that they have listed as unsupported. If you get
any problem whatsoever they are quite likely, unless you manage to get them
to agree that you have a supported configuration, to blame the db or the
odbc drivers.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com/
Received on Tue Apr 27 2004 - 08:57:50 CDT
