Re: [Firebird-odbc-devel] Which ODBC driver should I use?

[Russell C. <rus...@in...>]

Ok, thanks for the information.  I'll give 2.0 a try. 

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From: bill lam [mailto:cbi...@gm...] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 8:38 PM
To: fir...@li...
Subject: Re: [Firebird-odbc-devel] Which ODBC driver should I use?

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, bill lam wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Russell Campbell wrote:
> 
> > The ibphoenix site says usage questions are acceptable to this list, 
> > though I think I saw a different take on that somewhere else, so if 
> > this post is not acceptable, please direct me to a more appropriate
list.
> 
> This is the only list on fbodbc and it got low traffic, so that I 
> think it is OK for usage questions.
> 
> >  
> > Which ODBC driver should I use?  This page -
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?
> > a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_60_odbc) - says version 1.3 and 2 are in beta.  
> > Wanting a stable version, I tried 1.2, but I'm having troubles with that
one right now.
> > I'm still working on a possible solution, but, in the meantime, 
> > which is the best driver to use?  I'm going from Microsoft Visual 
> > FoxPro 9 on a Windows XP machine to a FB installation (1.5, it seems) on
a Win2003 server.
> 
> I have never used Visual Foxpro, but if it uses odbc (not .net) for 
> firebird, then I believe the 2.0 branch is the best open source fb 
> odbc driver that you can get. IMO it even better than other commercial 
> dirvers.  It works both for fb 1.5 and fb 2.0.  It is "beta" just 
> because the author did not feel the need to tag it as "stable". OTOH 
> the 1.x branch do work with unicode and many features/bug fixes were 
> not back ported from 2.0.
> 
> In short, just use the 1.2 branch.

OOP! typo, should be "just use the 2.0 beta branch"

> 
> You can get the binary built from http://www.praktik.km.ua/ or 
> otherwise compile from cvs source at 
> http://firebird.cvs.sourceforge.net/firebird/OdbcJdbc/?sortby=date&pat
> hrev=HEAD
> 
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