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

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Joe:

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?

Tom Liotta

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