Do you know what ODBC is, and why most smart programmers dislike it and try to stomp out its stupidity? The model for writing drivers, and plugging in drivers,

Do you know what ODBC is, and why most smart programmers dislike it and try to stomp out its stupidity? The model for writing drivers, and plugging in drivers, in ODBC, is R. E. T. A. R. D. E. D. Edit: I forgot to mention that using the drivers suck, too. The ODBC transaction interface is basically RPC, and is becoming out-moded with recent language research on remote batch execution. Usually, you have a custom transport protocol for client/server, like the Microsoft SQL Server Tabular Data Stream protocol. It is ultimately not very extensible. Imagine something like LINQ today. Would be nice to just send that expression tree to SQL Server, and not have a client-side or middle-tier ORM tool have to transform the tree into SQL.