Re: Mapping to/from Access and/or Excel

[Peter Olivola]

ODBC is a universal technique for connecting to an application so it must carry a lot of overhead to be able to work between various applications.  That affects performance.  This is becoming less of an issue with ever increasing performance, but it still needs to be given consideration.  I would disagree with St. Paul's flat statement generally, but it may be correct for their package. Peter Olivola ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----Original Message----- From: Electronic Data Interchange Issues [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anthony Beecher Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 5:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mapping to/from Access and/or Excel What is EDITALK?   I know that Gentran NT and St. Paul do not support ODBC, PaperFree does ODBC, EDITalk does ODBC, Mercator supports ODBC and MS SQL Server /Oracle/DB2 native connections.   When I met with St. Paul, they said it was better to use a flat file and a bulk load rather than ODBC. Can anyone speak to this statement?