Re: Oracle ODBC Drivers

From: Guido Le Lorrain <Guido_at_palmstech.com>
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 13:02:53 -0500
Message-ID: <6icv86$stp@news-central.tiac.net>

Michael Pelzelmeyer wrote in message <3549B059.70D2_at_herba-chemosan.at>...
>candi_at_altavista.net wrote:
>> ODBC drivers are touchy, it may be difficult to
>> switch drivers in the middle of development.
>We are also searching for stable ODBC drivers. We are neither
>satisfied with Oracle nor Microsoft ODBC drivers. They are
>used for Oracle access from MS-Access, especially on outer-joins
>we encountered several problems. So we think on switching to
>Visigenic (or test it at least).
>What specific problems did you encounter on switching drivers?
>(In an optimistic view, the ODBC-API should be the same for all
>drivers, except for different compliance levels.)
>TIA Michael

You are definitely correct, its not a good idea to switch ODBC drivers in mid development. We are currently using Intersolv's 32bit ODBC driver (version 2.5). There is a later version but it does seem to have a few problems in a NT environment.
From my experience none of these ODBC drivers are the same or work at all well, but I do think intersolvs is the lesser evil?

Guido Received on Fri May 01 1998 - 13:02:53 CDT