Re: Performance of ODBC vs. other access methods

ODBC itself is fairly efficient, and is quite a bit more efficient than SOAP 
and XML based data interchange, but when you open a server for remote access 
via ODBC you never know what type (perhaps even malicious) or amount of 
workload will be generated by ODBC clients, and it's hard to manage.

It puts the responsibility for managing workload and performance into the hands 
of end users, and the tools they choose.

Nathan.



----- Original Message ----
From: Dave Odom <Dave.Odom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:53:29 PM
Subject: [WEB400] Performance of ODBC vs. other access methods

What's the prevailing wisdom backed up by real world experience when
using ODBC from whatever tool or programming language to access DB2/400
or ORACLE versus using some other remote or distributed access method
such as DRDA, calls to stored procedures or API calls?   I've been told
that ODBC is a good performer but have my doubts.

What's your experience show vs Ivory Tower tests?

Thanks in advance,

Dave