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Subject: Re: [PECL-DEV] Re: Announce: PDO beta releases
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Wez Furlong wrote:

>>I'm not seeing an easy route to getting hold of a copy to play with
>>(windows :( ) and I'm not seeing much in the function list yet.
> 
> http://snaps.php.net/win32/PECL_5_0/ has binaries for all PDO packages
> (including MS-SQL, which doesn't show up in the PECL package list
> yet).

Somewhere I've not been before ;)

>>Is it worth me spending time digging into this just yet, or should I
>>wait for some of missing functionality to be addressed ;)
> 
> The API is feature complete (although some drivers don't implement as
> many features as they could yet).

How are Blob references handled?
Sequence management?
No Caching?
How do we access metadata?
LIMIT/FIRST management in SQL?

> NOW is the time to investigate it for yourself; it will be too late otherwise.

I start with a check that the tables I need exist, independent of the 
different SQL requirements of the different engines. On a quick 
overview, there is nothing to replace MetaTables() ?
ADOdb makes differences in SQL formats between databases transparent, is 
that something that PDO will address?
The other area is transparent creation of databases independent of engine.
What I am seeing at the moment is only a subset of the problem addressed.

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Lester Caine
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