Re: Call for an API standard for SQL statements

From: Tony Douglas <tonyisyourpal_at_netscape.net>
Date: 28 Oct 2004 14:47:02 -0700
Message-ID: <bcb8c360.0410281347.22552922_at_posting.google.com>


fredrik_bertilsson_at_passagen.se (Fredrik Bertilsson) wrote in message news:<31f7e57d.0410192036.32b78175_at_posting.google.com>...
> It does not seem to exists any standard for how to define SQL
> statements in a object oriented API. Currently different products have
> completely different syntax. Until such standard exists, people can
> always argue that it safer to type SQL statements directly as strings
> in the application source code. But there are many situations there an
> application framework need to know how the statements is built up, not
> just that it is a stream of characters.
>
> Is it someone here interested to try to make a draft for such
> standard?
>
> Fredrik Bertilsson
> http://butler.sourceforge.net

Could this thread be summarised as, "I want an object model for the abstract syntax tree of an idealised SQL which can then be formed into SQL for a particular DBMS implementation" ?

  • Tony
Received on Thu Oct 28 2004 - 23:47:02 CEST

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