"Douglas L Stewart" wrote in message
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What is "the current technology"?

In Microsoft's world it's ADO.NET.

The technology evolution as I understand it was (from oldest to newest):

1) ODBC
2) DAO and RDO
3) OLE DB
4) ADO
5) ADO.NET

The evolution of providers was:
1) ODBC
2) OLE DB
3) .NET data providers

George


"George John" wrote in message
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"Douglas L Stewart" wrote in message
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I've dealt with ODBC with IBM DB2 at work lately with Microsoft
Access,
and
I can tell you it is still a mess.

Isn't ODBC at least two generations behind the current technology? I
haven't used it in many years.

George