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#! rnews 2674 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!news.gun.de!msn!noris.net!xlink.net!relay.sedat.de!tricbbs.fn.sub.org!bofh.lake.de!bofh.tricbbs.fn.sub.org!not-for-mail From: cg@bofh.lake.de (Cees de Groot) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.databases,comp.unix.questions,comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: ODBC gateway for Unix Date: 20 Aug 1995 12:54:06 +0200 Organization: TricBBS - Bodensee Linux Support Site Lines: 35 Message-ID: <41748e$t8b@bofh.lake.de> References: <3uh2h7$dbc@cmi.hahnemann.edu> <40or07$6kf@park.uvsc.edu> <40st56$24q@bofh.lake.de> <413086$1jm@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.tricbbs.fn.sub.org Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:678 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4980 comp.databases:41275 comp.unix.questions:68336 comp.sources.wanted:23717 In article <413086$1jm@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote: >cg@bofh.lake.de (Cees de Groot) wrote: >] >] Would have to check the code for that (when was it posted/where can I >] find it ?). You can check out for yourself if you can't wait for my >] answer: we give you a free 30 day trial, so it won't cost you anything. > >Sorry; I screwed up; it was posted in alt.sources. Here is the >blurb from the post: > >Title: iODBC Driver Manager > An ODBC Driver Manager manages ODBC drivers. You could almost conclude that from the name ;-). What this means: your application doesn't care whose drivers it uses, it calls the driver manager which then uses it's knowledge about the drivers that are registered to load the correct driver. Our product, which currently works under Unix without a driver manager, is an implementation of such a driver. As we did this before there was something like a driver manager for Unix, we did not call it ODBC, but UDBC (U for Universal). It implements both the ODBC spec and the CLI SAG spec of X/Open, thus making it actually more versatile than an ODBC-only driver. We will support Unix driver managers in due time, but the UDBC product will continue to provide you with the ODBC API's on non-ODBC platforms (VMS, for example). The iODBC Driver Manager is probably a reaction to a commercial version of the driver manager; probably the authors found this commercial version overpriced for such a simple program and they decided to show this :-). Thanks for the pointer, I will take a very close look to this stuff... -- Cees de Groot, OpenLink Software <cg@bofh.lake.de> 262ui/2048: ID=4F018825 FP=5653C0DDECE4359D FFDDB8F7A7970789 [Key on servers] http://www.lake.de/sonst/homepages/s2449/index.html