Re: Pro*C vs OCI

From: <kdas_at_my-dejanews.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 21:11:50 GMT
Message-ID: <6vj9qm$tt3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>

In article <35F5F13A.4FD5CB36_at_india.hp.com>, "K. Raghuraman" <kraghu_at_india.hp.com> wrote:
> Hi Sebastien,
>
> OCI is a native interface with Oracle. Pro*C is the embedded code that
> operate on an Oracle database. OCI is faster than Pro*C and does not
> require any precompilers. OCI is pretty difficult to develop compared to
> Pro*C. Also if you have any plan for migration to other databases, OCI

I know this is a bit of a glib question, but can anyone describe how much faster OCI is when compared to Pro*C? As Raghu mentions, OCI is much more difficult to develop with than Pro*C. In my experience this has meant increased development timeframes for OCI vs. Pro*C. Also, as developers leave projects developed with OCI, maintainance issues arise as the number of programmers with a substantial knowledge of OCI isn't very high.

Any help or observations would be appreciated.

kdas

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