On Mon, 1 May 2000, Brett W. McCoy wrote:
> On Mon, 1 May 2000, Robert Wagner wrote:
>
> > Unix don't have certain concepts like ODBC that we take for granted in a
> > Windows networking environment. Many Unix programmers simply use flat
> > files for local storage, because database access is so slow, and there is
> > the additional administrational overhead.... what a bother. For some this
> > is job security though, writing code that is tightly coupled to everybody
> > elses code, and nobody else can understand.
Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention there is a Unix ODBC library, found at
www.unixodbc.com
Brett W. McCoy
http://www.chapelperilous.net
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