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My desktop application uses Firebird as its database back-end. I'm going to use CI to develop a web-based enquiry tool. As CI doesn't natively support Firebird or Interbase, I was going to use ODBC to connect to the database instead. My questions are :-
Will using ODBC with CI have an adverse affect on performance?
How do I initiate an ODBC connection with CI? The documentation makes a passing reference to it, but doesn't explicitly say how to go about it? I've tried specifying the system DSN name in the hostname and 'odbc' in the dbdriver, but it doesn't seem to work.
How easy is it to create new database wrappers?
Cheers,
Andy