Re: JDBC vs ODBC

Any updates - thanks

In article <7st556$2cd$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   coakleyj_at_hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi all.
> My understanding is that JDBC is the Java equivalent
> of ODBC - i.e a generic standard for connecting to
> RDBMSs from Java.
> Now, when developing with ODBC, it is generally the case
> that you could only use SQL92 SQL (unless of course you
> used SQLPASSTHROUGH). However, with JDBC, there doesn't
> seem to be any such restriction. It would appear that
> one can use any of the Oracle extensions (such as "decode"
> for example) as well as long and LOB datatypes.
>
> How is this the case if JDBC is a "generic standard"?
>
> Thanks
>
> Coakleyj
>
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