Re: Which is better - more tables or more DSN's ???

From: OraSaurus <granaman_at_not_home.com>
Date: 1999/01/17
Message-ID: <4qoo2.4557$xq4.1259_at_news.rdc1.ne.home.com>#1/1


In article <77s8el$3m7$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>, john_kozubik_at_hotmail.com wrote:
>On many servers, a DSN is a way for ODBC to talk to a database. For
>instance, if your web server needs to talk to a database, you define a DSN
>that has a name and points to the actual database (in this case an oracle
>database).
>
>Then, you can just tell your web server the DSN, and ODBC takes care of the
>rest.
>
>>
>> What is a DSN? And what does it have to do with Oracle?

Ahhh! DSN = Data Source Name (in ODBC)
Do you really want to use ODBC? Probably not if performance is critical!

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