In article <cl4lje$c8l$1@sea.gmane.org>, Steve Hutton wrote:
I suspect ODBC is a popular choice for implementers because it brings support for multiple databases. There is certainly precedent for porting OCI code to ODBC - that's the path taken by OTL.
To clarify - OTL today supports both OCI and ODBC. There are also some libraries that tout native drivers (without ODBC) has a feature. For example the commercial library sqlapi uses all native drivers, and in the JDBC world, ODBC-bridge drivers have been superceded by native drivers. So the relevance of ODBC is open to debate - the key IMHO is uniform support for all the major databases. ODBC may be a quick means to that end. Native drivers can always be added later, or vise-versa. Steve