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There are a few flavors of drivers. You can choose the correct one
based on your objectives, perfomance requirements, and complexity.
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Type I Drivers uses a JDBC front-end that communicates with ODBC
to connect to the database. This is slower and less efficient than
the other drivers, and should be avoided where possible.
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Type II Drivers use some Java language and some native code.
Thus, these drivers are platform-specific.
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Type III Drivers are 100% Java, and translate database-independent
messages into a database-specific protocol.
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Type IV Drivers are also 100% Java, and translate database request
directly into a database-specific protocol. This is the optimal driver
type to use.
Getting a Database
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