Is ODBC a general standard or just represent a way of database
connectivity. If I wanted to write a C++ module using ODBC, is there
a fairly standard API interface or is it completely different on various
platforms and drivers ?

What are some good sources of information on ODBC, particularly for C++
development, books, web sites ? I am interested in the AIX unix platform.

I was told alot of ODBC books are out of print by softpro.

Thanks

surfunbear (AT) yahoo (DOT) com (Larry) wrote in message news:<fa148c36.0407151721.44c6995e (AT) posting (DOT) google.com>...
Hi,

Have a look at www.easysoft.com. I've used cross platform ODBC
drivers from Easysoft so I can connect from AIX to Windows Databases
(SQL Server) using C programs. What is it exactly you are wanting to
know?

Regards,

John

Hi,

Well I've gotten farther along but thanks for answering my question.
I have perl working through DBI. I am wondering if that will be fast
enough
or if I can somehow redirect the result sets returned from perl to
a C++ program in an efficient way that won't involve alot of overhead
or if I should look into ODBC with C++. We don't have ODBC set up on
aix
and I imagine I might need some C++ libraries to link to etc. That
might take time, money, research, and conving people at work of the
need etc. On the
other hand if I could get C++ to interact with perl/DBI and without
taking a performance hit it might be worth looking into. I would just
use perl to interface to the database but use C++ to process the
result sets since perl might be slower on result set processing. This
is assuming that I can get the result set from perl fast enough which
why wouldn't I and if perl is just returning result sets, why would
that be slow. Some perl/DBI documentation seems to indicate that
perl/DBI works fast in that regard. There is also a DBI/proxy server
so that I could have linux perl with DBI/ODBC talk to aix perl/DBI
even though there is no ODBC installed on aix. It goes transparently
through the proxy encripted and compressed.


john.groves (AT) thinkoutsource (DOT) co.uk (John Groves) wrote in message news:<5d28ec7e.0407211159.68ddb732 (AT) posting (DOT) google.com>...