From: Stephen Davies <scldad@sdc.com.au>
To: Sbragion Denis <infotecn@tin.it>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] VB and ODBC: found
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 21:41:18 +0930
Message-ID: <199804271211.VAA24591@mustang.sdc.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980427120850.007e6320@MBox.InfoTecna.com>
> Hello,
>
> after a fast look I found a reference in the MS knowledge base:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q109/8/00.asp
>
> little excerpt:
>
> Before you can edit an external ODBC table, the table must contain a unique
> index. If you get the following error message, you might not have a unique
> index on the table:
>
> Can't perform operation; it is illegal.
>
> You could also receive this error if the Data1.Recordset.Updatable flag is
> not set to True. Also, if you set the Data1.Options property to 64
> (SQL_PASSTHROUGH), the data control will not be updatable.
>
OK. Maybe that is the difference. I never use data controls to access ODBC
databases: the performance is awful.
There also seem to be strange constraints placed by MS on some types of
recordsets: the "safest" seem to be tables rather than dynasets etc.
I always use direct calls to the ODBC DLL. This is quite easy and, in general,
gives performance comparable with native SQL commands - and does not require
unique indexes or other strange MS policies..
Having said that, my personal preference is to have a unique key in every
table and if there is no obvious candidate, to make that key a
system-generated sequence number.
Cheers,
Stephen.
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