CD> A lot of the "extra capabilities" from ODBC flow from its design
CD> goal of portability across as many DBMSs as possible.  So it is
CD> important to have, for example, a way to find out the structure of
CD> various data types while the "one DBMS only" approach has no (or
CD> very little) need for this.
Does that mean that ONE ODBC driver could (theoretically) be used to
interrogate databases from several different vendors (Oracle, IBM, M$,
etc)?  That would be slick.  I wonder how close that ever came to being
realized?
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