From: "Willy Gielen" <wgielen@quintessence.net>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.tools
Subject: Re: using microsoft odbc vs oracle odbc
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 19:12:55 +0200
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Do any or both handle connection pooling?

Willy

"Justin Cave" <jocave@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> kossack80021@yahoo.com wrote in message
 news:<2Zea7.15180$ar1.51918@www.newsranger.com>...
> > What is the advantage of using the oracle odbc driver versus the
 microsoft odbc
> > driver?
>
> 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