Odp: [PHP-DB] ODBC as a good DB abstraction
| From: | Jarek Zgoda | Date: | Thu, 23 Nov 2000 22:47:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | Odp: [PHP-DB] ODBC as a good DB abstraction | ||
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Od: "Giovanni Tummarello" <tummarel@ascu.unian.it>
Temat: [PHP-DB] ODBC as a good DB abstraction
> hello people... has anyone had experience in using ODBC as an abstraction
layer
> for the RDBMS? stuff like "metabase" isnt actually cost free in terms of
> programming overhead.
>
> are there major shortcomings to this choice?
>
> are performances greatly smaller than say use a native PHP driver to a
> database?
>
> I am thinking interbase at the moment..
While it could be a good idea in case of some "exotic" DBMS (such as Centura
SQLBase or Pervasive SQL), in the case of IB it's not. Current version of
EasySoft's driver suffers from "youth" - it's still plenty of bugs. And - of
course - costs some money (about $100 currently).
Cheers
Jarek Zgoda