[Gdal-dev] OGR OLEDB Provider

[Frank Warmerdam]

Tamas Szekeres wrote:
> Frank,
> 
> Although I didn't play much with this implementation I would
> discourage to omit that officially without any compelling reasons. I
> thinks the (native) OLEDB interface has a faily large audience
> comparing with the ODBC interface from the aspect of the MS SQL server
> for years. I can guess it provides a performance impact as well, so I
> think we should do some examination before taking this step.

Tamas,

I would stress that this is not a replacement for OGR's ability to
access ODBC datasources since it is on "the other side".  That is it
provides an OLE DB interface to OGR.  There is currently no comparible
ODBC interface to OGR.

Would you be willing to address the code provenance concerns with the
OLE DB provider?  If they can be resolved, I'd be fine with keeping
the OLE DB provider in trunk.

   http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1817

Best regards,
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