Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!asuvax!anasaz!john
From: john@anasaz.UUCP (John Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Sybase, embedded SQL, and the library approach
Message-ID: <850@anasaz.UUCP>
Date: 29 Oct 89 15:52:15 GMT
References: <1528@esquire.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@anasaz.UUCP (John Moore)
Organization: Anasazi Inc, Phoenix AZ
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In article <1528@esquire.UUCP> rreid@esquire.UUCP ( r l reid ) writes:
]
]As Sybase puts it, "the DB-Library approach is distinctly
]different from the 'embedded SQL' type of host language
]interface that some database management systems provide".
]
]Sybase says they feel that the library approach is superior
]to the embedded approach.  My problem is I disagree -
]I like to have the choice; and the embedded code is for
]me in most cases easier to write and maintain.

This is one of the reasons we rejected Sybase during our
selection process for a RDBMS on which to base our main product
(hotel central reservation systems).
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