Re: Delphi vs Oracle 2000 vs VB 4.0 ???

Jason Pociask wrote:
>
> OK, here's a question: Assume out site is licensed to run SQL*NET 2.0
> on any PC we have. We need to write a few quicky applications that
> will query data out of Oracle Financials and display it under Windows.
> We don't want to write the app in Forms 4.5, we want to use either
> Visual basic 4.0 or Delphi 1.0 (the cheap version, not the more
> expensive Client/Server version).
>
> Is it possible to access SQLNET directly from VB4 or Delphi v1,
> or do we have to use ODBC only? In that case, what ODBC should
> we be using? I have the Professional, _not_ enterprise version
> of VB4. Does that make a differnce.
>
> Is there any hope?
>
> -jp email cc appreciated...

I'm told by the Microsoft VB 4 people that the ODBC database access in Pro has a really long code path through several DLLs to interact with the database. The Enterprise edition has the latest database access code that uses a single DLL, is supposedly much faster and uses less memory. I believe the VB 4 on-line doc alludes to this. Received on Wed Mar 20 1996 - 00:00:00 CET