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		TylerE on Sept 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die? The bigger pain point, from memory, was having an ODBC-compliant driver so the OS could actually talk to your DB. That basically meant MSSQL if you wanted to co-exist happily with early dotnet.

oaiey on Sept 11, 2023 [–]

Databases access was a mess then in general. But yeah, completely agree with your sentiment. PHP was just so much easier with common databases.

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