Hi Samuel > -----Original Message----- > From: Samuel Franklyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [snip] > The newest SAPDB ODBC Driver is included along > SQL Studio. This is the newest driver since the version > is 7.4.
You are right, that the 7.4 driver is included in SQL Studio. This is due to Unicode support which starts with ODBC 7.3.1. Actually there is no difference between 7.3.1 and 7.4 in the ODBC driver. The release numbers are only due to the underlying runtime libs and the kernel version, which always include a ODBC driver beside many other tools. The open source driver is 7.3.0, has no Unicode support and should not differ in any other way from 7.3.1. At the moment, both versions, i.e. non-Unicode (7.3.0) and Unicode (7.3.1/7.4) are supported. Therefore it can be that the build date of a 7.3 driver is newer than of a 7.4 one. > From my experience version 7.2 and 7.3 driver > has problems with VS.NET but version 7.4 is problem > free. In respect to open source I would say that 7.2 ODBC is outdated. If you can give me some information in what 7.3.0 can't do versus 7.4 can do (except Unicode) it would be very welcomed. I can imagine that some .NET things may run better if the driver supports Unicode. Maybe this could be an explanation for your observation. Regards Thomas ---------------------------------------------- Dr. Thomas K�tter SAP DB, SAP Labs Berlin SAP DB is open source. Get it! www.sapdb.org > > Stephen Gutknecht (SAPDB) wrote: > > > Mostly to the SAPDB team.. > > > > We are growing desperate with our production problems. One > idea that > > has come up: > > > > Is there any way to install the ODBC driver twice? Rename > the DLL and > > give it a different driver name? I'm assuming that they > two drivers > > could be run independently, not using shared memory or > other stuff. > > Is it written that it might work this way? > > > > I'm hoping that having "two installs" would allow us to see if the > > problem is within the dotNet CLR or within the ODBC driver. > > > > Alternate: can the 7.2 driver work side by side with the 7.3, can > > they both be installed at same time? If I remember correctly, I had > > the "Live Cache" driver installed at the same time as the > 7.3 driver a > > few months back. Perhaps they could both be used at the same time? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Stephen Gutknecht > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > sapdb.general mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general > _______________________________________________ sapdb.general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general
