Jeff Lindborg | no, it means they wont help you with questions you have about it and wont help you with problems they determine are caused by your used of ODBC (i.e. you waxed a bunch of data and opened a TAC ticket for assistance - they will direct you to restore from backup or reinstall). You use the interface at your own risk.
it logs indications about the use of ODBC into the update logging so it wont be a mystery what happened if you have a messy accident - that said it's really no more dangerous than REST, you can do most of the same things in REST (just less functionality and less performance). If you stick to using stored procedures and views as you should (never, EVER update data directly in a table - this is just 101 DB advice, though) you'll be fine. All my tools with a few exceptions are ODBC for performance reasons. |
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