Re: Visual Basic development against Oracle 8.1.7

well all i can say is wait for vb7, its gonna be full OO, and in true VB fashion kwik to write stuff.

I work with oracle and SQL server all day long, and i'm sorry all you oracle die hards, but when it comes to business and i've got a deadline to meet for a customer i can knock something up twice as fast using vb and sql server than anything else.

little tip from me...wanna get the money, meet your deadlines.

Billy Verreynne <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> wrote in message news:904tc0$p3j$1_at_ctb-nnrp2.saix.net...
> "J. Pieters" <jeroen.pieters_at_bluewater-group.com> wrote
>
> > Does anyone out there has any experience with Visual Basic applications
> > using an Oracle database.

 <snipped>
> > The advantages and disadvantages.
> > Performance issues.
>
> Maybe VB has improved... but none of client-server development experiences
> (both as a developer and project leader) using VB have not failed to kick
 me
> in the nuts.. hard and repeatedly.
>
> Back with VB 4 we ran some sniffer tests. Open database. Select count.
 Close
> database. VB4 and Delphi 3. Both using the exact same ODBC driver. VB 4
> generated almost FOUR TIMES!! the network traffic than Delphi 3.
>
> With VB 6 and Delphi 4 I did a similar exercise. But it was a bit more
> complex as VB 6 allowed a plethora of confusing connectivity options..
 ADO,
> RDO, ODBC, etc. etc. The default results were even more shocking with VB 6
> generating a lot of crap (best word to describe) on the network. Again
> Delphi performed a lot better. I did a lot of tuning to the VB 6 app and
> finally managed to reduce the crap to almost nothing and got proper and
> consistent performance from it.. however, Delphi worked that way the first
> time around...
>
> Then there are language issues. VB is a very poor OO language. Object
 Pascal
> used by Delphi gives you the same power and flexibility than C++. And the
> same performance as a C++ executable. I've also used Delphi to write
 backend
> apps like a TCP transaction server that ran as a NT service. Delphi covers
> the complete development spectrum - from stand-alone apps, client-server
> apps to server side apps, webbased CGI's and DLL's...
>
> Not too mention that the next generation Delphi (called Kylix) will enable
> me to compile my Delphi code on Linux.
>
> Guess what development system I'm using exclusively today..?
>
> regards,
> Billy
>
>
>
Received on Sun Dec 03 2000 - 09:01:16 CST