Re: Any Doc?

From: Noah Monsey <noah_at_indirect.com>
Date: 1995/11/24
Message-ID: <30b59ff7.6039498_at_165.247.1.4>#1/1

pleach_at_ice.net (Phillip A. Leach) wrote:

>I am in the process of writing a relatively simple cgi, in C, to query
>data from an Oracle db on the unix platform. I have some SQL experience;
>mainly with DB/2. I also have written cgis on the Mac to query data from
>a FoxPro database.
>
>I know that basically I need to connect to the database, open a cursor,
>bind program variables to database fields, fetch records, and close the
>connection all while checking for errors. I have looked at TSS and
>Decoux. From these I have determined that straight C functions and
>embedded SQL commands exist to do what I need.
>
>My question is: "Is there doc, html pages, books, whatever, and/or program
>examples that list and explain the various C functions and SQL commands
>that can be used to access an Oracle database.
>
>Thanks.

 I highly recommend getting Oraperl. All of the programming work has  already been done. The Oraperl cgi scripts that I use are really similar  to perl scripts. Oraperl allows you to connect ot oracle and execute sql  statements.
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Noah Monsey                       noah_at_indirect.com

========= ========= ========= ========= ========= The only dumb question is the one that you don't ask. ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= Oracle Master Database Administration, April 1992 Oracle Master Application Development, April 1992 ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= Received on Fri Nov 24 1995 - 00:00:00 CET