Re: php, oracle and odbc

Morten Dreier wrote: > > We have decided to move our Oracle8-server to a different machine than the > web-server. At the same time, we want to move to use odbc instead of the > native Oracle-libraries. > Why would you want to use odbc when you can use native oracle libraries? Using odbc generally adds (more or less noticeable) overhead to your database operations. You can see this clearly with the ODBC drivers for Windows provided by Oracle - to use them you still need the oracle libraries. -Andreas -- Andreas Karajannis GMD National Research Center for Information Technology Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53754 Sankt Augustin Phone +49 2241 142948