Re: Oracle API for C/C++ ?

This OTL looks great for console applications. Does anyone know if there is one for windows based applications, or even better one that is based with MFC? Thanks in advance.

Karl Nordquist
Application Development Supervisor
Bright Wood Corporation
Madras, Oregon
karln_at_brightwood.com

Sergei Kuchin wrote:

> > The Oracle precompiler actually converts Pro*C calls into OCI
> > calls.
> This statement is not quite true. OCI is based upon UPI. Pro*C is based
> upon sqllib which based upon UPI. Pro*C provides client side cursor
> caching, OCI does not.
>
> > If that last time you looked at OCI was Oracle 7 or before,
> > look at it in Oracle 8, they have opened it up quite a bit
> > (hundreds of intrinsics rather than 40 some).
> OCI8 became more like ODBC 3.x. Take a closer look at the OCI8 #defines
> and the OCI8 ideology at large: handles, opaque structures, etc.
> However, OCI8 provides more flexibility for Oracle Corp to change the
> implementation -- the price to be paid by the users.
>
> I have a C++ stream based API with SQL. The API is made in the format of
> C++ Template wrapper around OCI7 and the same type API as a wrapper
> around OCI8:
>
> http://home.sprynet.com/~skuchin/otl_1pg.htm
>
> Sergei
>
> >
> > In article <3808b024.432646_at_news.demon.nl>, postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl
> > (Sybrand Bakker) wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, OCI, the Oracle Call Interface. This is a low level interface
> > > compared to Pro*C, which is essentially a HLI (Host Language
> > > Interface).
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
> > >
> > > On Sun, 17 Oct 1999 01:14:07 +0800, "Chow Hoi Ka, Eric"
> > > <eric138_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >Hello,
> > > >
> > > >Except Pro *C, is there any other API for C in Sun Solaris to access
> > > >Oracle daatabase ???
> > > >
> > > >Best regards,
> > > >Eric
> > > >
> > > >--
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> > --
> > Shawn Lavin
> > As always, my opinions are my own
Received on Tue Oct 19 1999 - 11:20:02 CDT