Hi Stephen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Gutknecht (SAPDB) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Dienstag, 29. Juli 2003 19:53
> To: Koetter, Thomas Theodor; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: More Win32 ODBC driver confusion with 7.4.03.27
> Importance: High
>
>
> There seems to be TWO drivers now.
>
> "SAP DB"
> "SAP DB (Unicode)"
>
> Does this mean that the first is NOT unicode? And that apps
> written for
> 03.25 (which had the "SAP DB" driver name) will now have to switch?
To make it short:
"SAP DB" does not implement the Unicode-API of ODBC any more. There are
some drawbacks to use this API by default. The main reason is, that the
driver manager uses the Unicode-API, if it is in the driver.
Subsequently, pure ASCII clients suffer from some overhead which may hamper
the whole application. Nevertheless this driver can communicate with
an Unicode DB, but of course, only in ASCII.
"SAP DB (Unicode)" is identically to what was "SAP DB 7.4" before and
unfortunately "SAP DB" in one build step in between (build 25).
The release notes are updated now:
Excert:
PTS: 1123343 since: 7.4.03.25
New Feature:
During installation the ODBC driver is registered under the
name "SAP DB". Formerly, the name was "SAP DB 7.x" where x
denoted the minor release number.
PTS: 1123345 since: 7.4.03.26
New Feature:
Two ODBC drivers are installed. An ASCII version under the
name "SAP DB" and an Unicode version under "SAP DB (Unicode)".
If an application does not need Unicode, the ASCII driver
has some advantages due to avoiding unnecessary conversions
etc.
Please apologize the confusion due to this renaming stuff.
An updated ODBC driver (build 27) is available on the ftp-server, too:
ftp://ftp.sap.com/pub/sapdb/bin/win/odbc74-setup.exe
Regards Thomas
PS: Once the next release under the MySQL branding will appear,
I'm afraid, that another renaming could take place.
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Dr. Thomas K�tter
SAP DB, SAP Labs Berlin
Hurry up, SAP DB is open source www.sapdb.org
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