Re: ORACLE's ODBC vs. Other ODBC Vendors

In article <3353af8d.1387545_at_firewall>,   randyw_at_simbatech.com wrote:
>
> Check out Simba's Oracle ODBC driver. http://www.simbatech.com
>
> Randy
> Simba Technologies
>
> On 10 Apr 1997 17:50:24 GMT, "Steve McDaniels"
> <steve.mcdaniels_at_sierra.com> wrote:
>
> The Oracle drivers (2.00.03xx and 1.16xxxx) do not work correctly with
> left
> outer joins. We have constructed simple (2 table queries) where the
> results are incorrect.
>
> The Intersolve 3.0 driver performs this simple query correctly. The
> Visigenic driver is too expensive, the folks there are very difficult
> to
> work with - I don't recommend Visigenic.
>
> Greg Smith <gsmith_at_bdmtech.com> wrote in article
> <334AC29D.52B4728C_at_bdmtech.com>...
> > Jeff Ebert wrote:
> > >
> > > All I can say is that the Oracle Drivers released by Oracle are only
> > > ODBC Conformance Level 1 drivers. It's not a question of speed,
> > > but functionality. I tried to use the Oracle7 ODBC drivers with on an
> > > Oracle 7.3 database with Microsoft Access. No dice...
> > > Access checks the driver and says: Driver Not Compliant.
> > > Apparently, it needs some level 2 functions to operate.
> >
> > I've done exactly what you tried using the ODBC drivers from Oracle. I
> > installed SQLNet and ODBC from an Oracle for Workgroups (Win32) 7.3.x
> > release CD and connected to an Oracle 7.3 RDBMS server via MS Accesss
> > 7.0, Oracle ODBC Test, and the ODBC package for Perl-Win32.
> >
> > Have had no problems under Win95, but have had problems with ODBC Test
> > under WinNT4.0.
> >
> > > We stuck with the Visigenic Drivers. They work good, are cheap,
> > > and we can purchase support if we need to.
> >
> > However, Visigenic is also top quality.
> >
> > Greg
> >
>
> ----------------
> Randy Woo
> Simba Technologies
> http://www.simbatech.com
> email: randyw_at_simbatech.com

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