[ale] php and unixODBC

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Well, I'll probably get slammed on this one, but I'm all for learning 
something new.  As I recall, ODBC originated in the Windows world?  Why 
do odbc when you can do the native db connectivity with perl dbi/dbd?

Fulton Green wrote:
> Admittedly, I'm speaking WAAAAY outta my league, but ...
> 
> ... isn't the whole purpose of unixODBC to abstract away most of the vendor-
> specific details of database interaction?


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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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