>Hi Al,
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>Actually it has more to do with the driver supporting different network protcols not ODBC. ODBC is a client side tool. The ODBC driver will communicate with the database server over a network protocol like TCP/IP or Named Pipes. I would forsee that the MySQL driver would probably do something like TCP/IP
ODBC implements a client-side data access API. Each ODBC driver is DBMS-specific; the driver developer can choose to use any network protocol the back end supports. As you point out, TCP/IP is widely supported, especially in the *n?x world.
For lurkers:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odbc/htm/odch03pr_4.asp
Regards. Al
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