Re: Which to Use - ProC or OCI ?

Mark Walter wrote:
>
> Ricardo Rocha (rrocha_at_usagate.net) wrote:
> : For ease of development and maintenance and (above all) increased
> : portability, I vote for Pro*C!
>
> For configurability of the final software products, I would go with OCI.
> I have created an DB object using OCI and feel that I have more control
> over how things function. But again, like Richardo said for ease of
> development and if you don't have much time to spare go with Pro*C.
>
> Mark Walter
> markw_at_fujiamerica.com

[Quoted] Portability is another issue, I am not very familiar with OCI but I believe it is proprietary to ORACLE. The Pro*C compiler is proprietary also, but almost every dbms has a compiler for embedded SQL. Minor changes usually allow this code to be ported to another environment.

John Hough Received on Thu Mar 20 1997 - 00:00:00 CET