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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 08:45:13 -0500
From: Stewart White <stewart.wh...@nashville.com>
Organization: Vintage Medical Services
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Subject: MS SQL Server - ODBC vs SQL Links
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I am in the process of developing an application using Delphi
that uses data from MS SQL Server.  What are people's
experiences with ODBC vs SQL Links?  I seem to recall
having read that the SQL link for MS SQL Server does not
work all that great.

Any comments will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Stewart White  
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GO VOLS!!!

E-Mail: stewart.wh...@nashville.com

Hi Stewart,

Borland still has many issues (interpreted: problems) to iron out in
their SQL Links implementation - most serious SQL Server developers are
using 3rd party tools through ODBC to get to SQL Server.

SQL Server's ODBC driver is still one of the slickest, quickest and
stable drivers we have *ever* tested.  A recent benchmark from one of
our customers showed the BDE inserting rows at 5/sec while our native
ODBC implementation inserted 180/sec!

Regards,

Rob
--
Rob McGillivray
Manager: Client/server Software Development
DataSoft - "Voted Top Development House in South Africa - 1994"
ODBCExpress: the top ODBC data access tool for Delphi,
http://www.adam.co.za

Yeah, but with the ODBC driver I get an error when I have several
tables ans queries on screen and try to roll back...

Hi Jeroen,

Yeah, but you *are* using the BDE! <g>

Regards,

Rob
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Rob McGillivray
Manager: Client/server Software Development
DataSoft - "Voted Top Development House in South Africa - 1994"
ODBCExpress: the top ODBC data access tool for Delphi,
http://www.odbcexpress.com