At 06:58 AM 04-05-01 +0100, you wrote:

>I've seen several comments over the last few months that and
>ODBC driver is a required part of Firebird.
>
>I've never used one, even in the old days, so could someone
>explain where it is used and why one would want to hide the
>power of Firebird? I'm assuming here that ODBC has similar
>restrictions to BDE which has already been proved to be of
>little use for accessing Firebird.

Any legacy apps that are locked into Microsoft interfaces - VB, ASP, Ole, Crystal Reports.

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