Re: Is there an OCI like layer for Sybase or MS SQL Server??

In <3eqp5c$93a_at_ibridge.iohk.com>, jwalters_at_igate.iohk.com (Jay Walters) writes:
>John Jamison (jamison_john_at_sagesoln.com) wrote:
>: In article <3ek32f$ips_at_uuneo.neosoft.com>, chadb_at_NeoSoft.com wrote:
 

>: > would be easy to port to Sybase or SQL Server. I have no idea!! Is there
>: > a layer similar to OCI for these databases or is it all pre-compilers??
>: > If there is, are they easier or harder to code to??
>: > Chad
>: Yes - the common API for both engines is called DB-Library.
>: -John
>execute it. Now this looks more complicated and less efficient to me,
>but I don't know what all ORACLE OCI is doing under the covers so it
>might just be exporting of the confusion layer to the developer instead
>of hiding it from them.
>

So do that same concepts of opening cursors, parasing sql, binding vars, executing, fetching and closing cursors apply to ct/db-lib??

  Chad

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Chad Brockman
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