Re: using microsoft odbc vs oracle odbc
Date: 3 Aug 2001 10:41:58 -0700
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kossack80021_at_yahoo.com wrote in message news:<2Zea7.15180$ar1.51918_at_www.newsranger.com>...
> What is the advantage of using the oracle odbc driver versus the microsoft odbc
> driver?
[Quoted] [Quoted] Most commonly, the advantage is in the feature set that's supported. The Oracle driver has support for the BLOB and CLOB data types, while the Microsoft driver doesn't. The Oracle driver also generally returns more complete catalog information than does the Microsoft driver.
Some folks prefer one driver over the other because of differences in the way they handle certain situations. The ODBC spec contains a number of instances where behavior is not specified or where driver implementers are given a set of options for how to handle a situation.
Justin Cave Received on Fri Aug 03 2001 - 19:41:58 CEST