Thu, 3 Feb 2000 19:20:18 -0700
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I'm kind of in the dark about accessing databases from Ada95.
I've seen mention of SAME and SAMEDL, but I can't seem to locate any
documentation about those. Does anyone actually use/support those?
Unless something else pops It looks like my options are
1) Use thin bindings to whatever C library the DB vendor supplies.
2) Write thick bindings to the vendor supplied C library.
3) Use thin bindings to ODBC.
4) Use Pascal Obry's bindings to ODBC.
The 3rd and 4th choices only work for MS-Windows. Choice 1 means my
code would be specific to one RDBMS not to mention messy. Choice 2
requires a lot of work, but if the bindings were done properly, the
calling code could be (mostly) database independent in roughly the
same way JDBC applications are DB independent; Only the package body
for the bindings would have to be rewritten for each RDBMS.
If I can't find a better solution I'm leaning toward #2. I'd rather
not reinvent wheels I don't have to, namely the package specification.
Are there (documented) database access specifications available?
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