Re: [Firebird-devel] external data sources

[Alex P. <pe...@in...>]

James K. Lowden wrote:

>On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Alex Peshkov <pe...@in...> wrote:
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>>there do exist a lot of other popular data exchange 
>>standards. What about posix? If I'm not mistaken, ODBC is windows 
>>specific thing.
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>No Posix standard, no XML standard, no any standard.  ODBC, bad as it is,
>is the nearest thing to a portable database library API.  True, it came
>from Windows, but it's been adopted by the Unix world.  There's nothing in
>the specification that requires Windows.  
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>I'm not sure what you mean by "data exchange" standard.  
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I meant ODBC, ADO, BDE,... This more or less standard ways to get data 
from different sources (various SQL servers, DBF-files, plain text 
files, etc.) and to represent to the application, using this data, in 
more or less initial format independent way.
I don't know why should ODBC be preferred to other ones. It's widely 
used in Windows world, but you said - adopted to by the Unix world. For 
example, I don't know about firebird ODBC driver for linux.
Alex.

>There are some
>ideas out floating around out there, but I've never seen anything nailed
>down, certainly nothing I'd call popular.  Happy to be enlighted, though. 
>:-)
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