Reckless Drivers
Posted by: Simple Talk,
on 07 Jan 2010 |
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Ten years ago Microsoft lost enthusiasm for the ODBC standard, and it is left mainly to "sticks in the mud" like Phil Factor to point out that what we dismissed was actually worth having: a fast, truly open standard for accessing all data sources. Now, new drivers come and go, along with new standards for data access, such as LINQ and EF, so that people are left paralyzed by choice, and unable even to safely upgrade their applications to support the newest version of the database....