RE: ODBC (was RE: Green screen - it's time is over )

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Joe:

On Fri, 16 November 2001, "Joe Pluta" wrote:

> Your client calls a server that returns data in a message.

Okie-doke. Was just curious what route you were going along. This was 
sufficient.

Tom Liotta

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thomas@inorbit.com
> >
> > On Tue, 13 November 2001, "Joe Pluta" wrote:
> >
> > > ODBC, no matter what the application, goes against every
> > possible tenet of
> > > distributed processing.  It is slow, and it ties your host
> > database to your
> > > client code.  You cannot change even the names of your columns
> > (much less
> > > the physical layout and location of your data) without updating
> > your client
> > > code.  This is absolutely unacceptable.
> >
> > I'm clearly missing something here. How do you go about changing
> > your physical layout, etc., without affecting client code when
> > you DON'T use ODBC?

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