Re: FUD!! ODBC will not be supported by Microsoft in the future

Amanjit Gill wrote:
> Hi,
> this might be actually offtopic, but its always time to fight FUD :-)
>
>
>>Microsoft will be doing away with the OLEDB to ODBC bridge in the near
>>future.
>
>
> Funny enough if I use __Microsoft__ SQL Query Analyzer which directly
> connects to SQL Servers and somehow shut the SQL Server down while a query
> running
> I get the following message (german):
> _________________________________________________________
> Server: Nachr.-Nr. 17, Schweregrad 16, Status 1, Zeile 0
> [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Shared Memory]SQL Server existiert nicht
> oder Zugriff verweigert.
> Server: Nachr.-Nr. 2, Schweregrad 16, Status 1, Zeile 0
> [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Shared Memory]ConnectionOpen
> (Connect()).
> _________________________________________________________
>
> Which means Microsoft uses ODBC itself for its internal DB Access with SQL
> Query Analyzer, and NOT OLE DB.

Hmm - this is confusing. Microsoft doesn't seem to be saying that ODBC
is going away, only the OLE DB (DAO, ADO) to ODBC bridge was being
deprecated - right?

This "move" by M$ may leave many developers who use VB and/or Access as
a front end to third-party back-end products (such as PostgreSQL) "in
the lurch" - unless someone else comes up with a way to work around this.

I just converted a major application from DAO to ADO (in VB) - thinking
it was going to be there for a while. What irritates me is that in none
of the documentation on Microsoft's web site about ADO, that I
referenced did they indicate that using ADO and ODBC might somehow be
changing (a link to that document that was posted would have helped) -
which may have changed my decision or development effort.

I can tell you that right now, finding out this (whatever the truth) -
it is changing my development direction rapidly: I am urging my
supervisor that we need to develop our application using something akin
to LAMP (with the 'M' being PG instead of that "other" DB).

Maybe one day I can say "bye-bye Microsoft" for my at-work development
(it is already this way at home).

Andrew Ayers
Phoenix, Arizona

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