Re: Another question. What is better Pro*C or OCI driver?

From: Volker Hetzer <volker.hetzer_at_ieee.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:19:11 +0100
Message-ID: <bqfil0$a4c$1@news.fujitsu-siemens.com>

"akush" <Berlin3010_at_web.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:bqf9k1$217299$1_at_ID-210289.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Hi!
>
> i actually research what interface for the oracle db i will use in our
> c/c++ client software. so as you can see in the message before i want to
> use the pro*c precompiler. but now i saw some articles on the OCI
> driver. i have somewhere read about that it is better to uses the
> precompiler, but i am not really convinced about this. so what is better
> to uses for a high performance client? the OCI or the precompiler (and
> are they using the same libarys/interfaces ) ?
They use different libraries. As to what is better for a high performance library, I don't know. However, I suspect that the main delay doesn't come from the ESQL/OCI libraries but from waiting for the network and the db.

Lots of Greetings!
Volker Received on Mon Dec 01 2003 - 08:19:11 CST