Re: Oracle and AIX

It's a personal choice, but unless you need the maximum possible performance I'd recommend Pro*C. If you already have C programming skills you'll find the precompiler extras easy to understand and use. Pro*C is still pretty quick and takes less programming work so should be easier to maintain.

Cheers

Mark

"Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message news:tifov7halv9d01_at_beta-news.demon.nl...
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> "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
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>
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Received on Wed Jun 13 2001 - 18:21:13 CDT