[CLUE-Tech] My transition

[Grant Johnson]

The one from MS, that comes with it is not ready for prime time.  I have 
not worked with people using the one from Sun, and did not know that 
there was one.

Sean LeBlanc wrote:

>On 02-26 13:33, Grant Johnson wrote:
>
>>The JDBC connection for MSSQL is not ready for prime time, and 
>>the ODBC is really just a pipeline to another machine (maybe even the 
>>machine that the DB server is running on) to an ODBC connection on that 
>>machine which must be Windows.
>>
>
>Not true. There are several Type 4 JDBC (some even implementing JDBC 2.0 spec)
>drivers available for MS SQL Server. Some of the newer ones (including
>M$'s own) are in beta, of course, and some only implement JDBC 2.0
>partially. But not all need ODBC by any extent...
>
>As for not being ready for prime time, I have been on at least four projects
>where the reference implementation (alas, ODBC) driver from Sun for MS SQL
>Server was used...all projects are in production as we speak. They run from
>Windows, but it's possible to get the ODBC client piece onto *nix, no?
>

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