Re: Oracle API for C/C++ ?

[Quoted] This OTL looks great for console applications. Does anyone know if there is [Quoted] 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 - 18:20:02 CEST