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"ODBC
* Works on Windows and Unix
* Almost portable between different SQL servers.
* Slow; MyODBC, which is a simple pass-through driver is 19 % slower than using a native interface.
* Many ways to do the same thing; Hard to get things to work as many ODBC drivers have different bugs in different areas.
* Problematic; Microsoft changes the interface once in a while.
* Insecure future (Microsoft pushes more for OLE than for ODBC). "
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