Re: Oracle and AIX

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 00:08:36 +0200
Message-ID: <tifov7halv9d01@beta-news.demon.nl>

"Jack Gostl" <gostl_at_argoscomp.com> wrote in message news:e4bcc99f.0106131246.14a1e765_at_posting.google.com...
> I'm very new to Oracle. We have just installed the Oracle client on
> our AIX system. I can access things fine through SQLPLUS, but we need
> to access the data from C programs.
>
> We could pack things up in files and invoked SQLPlus, but that's ugly.
> Is there an API interface directly callable from C? Where do I find
> it? How do I buy it?
>
> And for that matter, anything else you think I might find useful?(G)
>
> Thanks - Jack

Oracle comes with Pro*C, a H(ost) L(anguage) I(nterface) which allows you to embed sql in your c program. Pro*C is actually a precompiler. It also comes with OCI, the Oracle Call Interface, written in C, which is the lowest level API to Oracle there is. Time to read some documentation, I guess.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA Received on Wed Jun 13 2001 - 17:08:36 CDT