> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clément Doss [mailto:cdoss@...]
> Sent: Viernes 29 de Diciembre de 2000 5:57
>
> Wouldn´t it be great to have such a function in IB7?
> For those who are not familiar with it here is its syntax:
>
>
> Includes all connection information necessary to access remote data
> from an OLE DB data source.

Microsoft has succeeded pushing ODBC outside Windows realm. However, for me
at least, there's no clue that MS has been able to push OLE/DB outside
Windows. Otherwise, correct me.
MsSql is able to implement any OLE/DB feature they like, because they don't
have to worry about portability: MsSql is a Windows beast and period.
However, given that IB once supported up to 18 platforms, including Cray
(although some *unnamed* company didn't sell them) and that we might be in
the broad platform support avenue again, are you suggesting a feature that
would work exclusively on IB for Windows?
Maybe it's time to start thinking in pluggable modules... or from being
able to select from a UDF. Otherwise, the solution is more IFDEFs in the
code.

C.