Re: VB - ODBC - O7 wrong approach?

In article <3kqeqo$i4m_at_ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>, JMcI_at_ix.netcom.com (John McIntosh) says:
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>The message I'm getting from Oracle and a local Oracle integrator
>is "Why use ODBC to connect VB to Oracle when Glue or Objects for OLE
>offer far better useability and performance?"
>
>Do any of you concur that it is pointless to use ODBC with Visual Basic, if
>you have Glue available?

Hi,

I've tried ODBC and MS Jet, Oracle Glue and Oracle Objects for OLE. ODBC is something to avoid in my experience - the load on the client pc is enormous. Glue is OK but dated & Objects is the stuff of dreams (well relatively anyway). I recoded an entire 35+ form app to Objects from ODBC in a couple of hours (granted no bound controls). The help docs shipped with the free demo (try Http://www.oracle.com/) are a model of how windows help should be written. Other thing that impressed me is that you can hook crystal reports onto the objects data control and thus even run crystal without ODBC. Apart from a flakey S3 video driver my windows session no no longer crashes - the resource issues 'round ODBC are not trivial!

Tom   Received on Fri Mar 31 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST