Yes, there is a unique driver for the dotNet VM (CLR). ODBC can be
supported, but performance suffers, and trying to debug it is difficult
(good luck trying to debug a nasty C ODBC driver).

They are basically just called ".Net Data Provider".  Here is background:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/msdnmag/issues/01/12/Data
Prov/toc.asp

the MySQL .NET driver project:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysqlnet/

PostgreSQL .NET driver Npgsql:

http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/npgsql/projdisplay.php

Firebird has firebird-net-provider:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/

I believe there are others for mySQL (alternate projects).

Part of the problem, at least for me, is that SAPDB's driver to server
protocol is "rather unique".  Someone who has skills to reverse / study the
Python driver or Java (JDBC) SAPDB drivers would likely have an easier time
than trying to just work from the protocol specification.

  Stephen Gutknecht



-----Original Message-----
From: Sven K�hler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 3:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SAPDB not comptetive due to neglect of Win32 drivers

Well, what kind of drivers does .NET use? Is there a .NET API like JDBC 
that's independant of ODBC, OLEDB etc.?

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