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[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > For client database applications, please by all the powers-that-be, use
> > ODBC.  Copies of the Microsoft ODBC SDK & Programmers Reference Guide
> > are abundant, and this documentation (versions 3.0 or 3.5) is entirely
> > compatible with both ODBC systems available for Linux (iODBC or
> > unixODBC).  And M$'s ODBC documentation is still the best around (I know
> > how shocking that sounds).
> This brings up a question I've been sort of wanting to ask for awhile,
> but never got around to asking: what is the status and/or relationship
> between ODBC and OLEDB? I'd read that OLEDB was supposed to replace

OLEDB and the like offer more 'smarts' than ODBC.  ODBC just replaces
the database API;  things like OLEDB offer the ability to do
databinding, and usually, depending upon the data source, the ability to
modify the data dictionary.

> ODBC, the latter having become "obsolete". I'd been wondering for awhile
> whether we're going to be seeing an OLEDB equivalent in the open source
> (read: Linux) arena, and what it's likely to mean if we don't.
> Any thoughts?

That OLEDB equivalent is GDA/GNOME-db, which provides part of the
subsystem for Mono as well.
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