Is it possible to collect object usage information during compilation?

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/11/15 8:21 AM, DaveG wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 09:54:42 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2015-01-11 02:08, DaveG wrote:
>>
>>> In the past I have used FreeTDS, through PHP, and it had a lot of
>>> problems. This was several years ago and could have been at least
>>> partially due to the PHP layer.
>>>
>>> Last year I messed around with the ODBC wrapper and got amazingly poor
>>> performance, I believe the project was abandoned before I figured out
>>> the problem. Anybody actually using this in D? I'll have to write some
>>> tests and fire up the SQL profiler.
>>
>> We used Ruby on Rails with an SQL Server at my previous work. We used
>> TinyTDS which uses FreeTDS. It worked surprisingly well but it did had
>> some problems. One of those problems were encoding problems, but that
>> mostly because we used an older version of SQL Server.
>
> It was probably around 2011 when last I used FreeTDS, and even then I
> think it was an older version, so it's quite possible those issues have
> been resolved. My bias against it probably unjustified. We are only
> targeting Windows anyway so ODBC is probably a safe bet.

Should be easy to extract the necessaries for a generic ODBC driver for 
D from https://github.com/prestodb/presto-odbc. -- Andrei