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Re: Application development question

From: Davis <davis_at_sqlmagic.com>
Date: 20 May 2004 08:46:31 -0700
Message-ID: <80de4f.0405200746.fd0e4b5@posting.google.com>


"Lucky208" <Lucky208_at_poczta.fm> wrote in message news:<c8hlr0$163$1_at_atlantis.news.tpi.pl>...
> > Yes it does, but if Oracle is your only target database you are ill
> > advised to use ODBC. Compared to OCI and Pro*C ODBC is slow as a
> > turtle, just because it is a generic mechanism, and not optimized for
> > Oracle.
>
> [...]
>
> Thanks for information.
> My application won't use only one database so, therefore I think about ODBC.
> Can you tell me where I can find information about use ODBC on Unix platform
> ???
> Where I can find some examples using this mechanism ???
> Do ODBC drvers are provide with Oracle product ???

If you want to support multiple database systems (Oracle, MySQL, DB2, etc.), possibly on different hardware platforms, I think Java with JDBC is a very good choice. There are lots of tutorials and utilities available on the web. Received on Thu May 20 2004 - 10:46:31 CDT

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