Re: Interfacing with Oracle

In <3i5ine$8rc_at_sgd10.arlut.utexas.edu>, johnk_at_arlut.utexas.edu (John Knutson) writes:
>
>I need to be able to write code to access an Oracle database in C++
>(or possibly REXX). What development tools are available that would
>allow me to do this? I've seen Watcom VX-REXX, and Watcom SQL, and so
>on, but Watcom doesn't seem interested enough in making a sell to send
>me any information about their products. In short, I have no idea if
>these things can access an Oracle DB or not.
>
>I've seen Visual Age, but it doesn't access Oracle yet unfortunately,
>but it doesn't really seem to allow me to do what I want anyway. I
>could be wrong, but Visual Age is for writing stand-alone programs,
>and not for creating subprograms.

John:

Unfortunately, there is no REXX-interface available at the moment. It seems that Oracle does not see the potential (I understand they have a REXX-interface for their VM-version of Oracle).

With the advent of Personal Oracle for OS/2 (it was hinted) this becomes even more important and an urgent need. A REXX-DLL to interface with Oracle would allow *anyone* to interact personally with Oracle, not to mention that probably the visual REXX developers would be able to add this database to their tools.

Probably, everyone should post in <comp.databases.oracle> or get in touch with Oracle representatives, in order to catch their attention.

Hence, I posted this post to the NN-group also.

Regards,

---rony Received on Mon Feb 20 1995 - 22:57:15 CET