Re: oracle development problem of newbie.

You are comparing apples and pears.
Oracle forms (or better Oracle Developer) is from interactive GUI style applications.
ProC is a front end/pre-compiler to any C compiler (except gcc!!!) allowing you to write sql statements directly in your C code with knowing anything about any Oracle API calls necessary.
ProC is usually applied only to specific cases where speed is really important or complexity of reports doesn't allow a developer solution. IMO, it is not suitable to develop a GUI program with, as Developer automatically takes care of referential integrity and the like, and in ProC you will have to code that yourself.
To make things more complicated, if you are working on a PC, instead of Developer I would consider using Visual Basic/Visual C in conjunction with Oracle Objects for Ole (basically this is 'DAO for Oracle') or similar solution.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

Peng <peng_at_cs.ualberta.ca> wrote in message news:noay4.407$QY4.31375_at_news0.telusplanet.net...
> Hi,all. I have a question about oracle application development. I was told
I
> have two options:
> 1.Using oracle form
> 2.Using embedded sql in ProC
>
> I am not sure what is means by saying"Using embedded sql in ProC". Does
that
> means I can use C to develop and embed sql in the program? How can I do
> that? Do I need a specific compiler?
>
> Thanks a lot!!
>
>
>
Received on Fri Mar 10 2000 - 20:00:10 CET