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From: mickey@axis.fr (Philip Peake)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Call Interfaces to RDBMSs
Message-ID: <274@axis.fr>
Date: Sat, 8-Aug-87 11:51:59 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  8 11:51:59 1987
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Summary: Oracle has a call interface

In article <168@bernina.UUCP>, marti@ethz.UUCP (Robert Marti) writes:
> The prevalent approach to offer set-oriented access to a relational
> database from an application written in a langauge such as C seems
> to be pre-compilation.   ...
> Since we would like to use Modula-2 to access relational databases
> -- Modula-2 is the language our programmers (students) know best --
> we'd much rather have an interface in the form of a library of
> procedures.  ...
> 

Oracle does supply a call interface which I assume is detailed
in their documentation (if not they a do a tutorial lasting 1 (2?) days
which includes course nots with sufficient detail to let you do your
own).  Their interface is fairly close to what you gave in your example.

PS I do not work, nor have ever worked, for Oracle and no longer work
for the firm that used it (and me!:) but it seems OK although SQL
was an unfortunate choice (<- gratuitous opinion)

	Mickey Dance