Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sun-barr!decwrl!ucbvax!mtxinu!sybase!binky!tim From: tim@binky.sybase.com (Tim Wood) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Do you like your UNIX RDBMS? Message-ID: <4450@sybase.sybase.com> Date: 29 May 89 20:26:01 GMT References: <9703@dasys1.UUCP> <3378@fp.sei.cmu.edu> <2907@osiris.UUCP> Sender: news@sybase.sybase.com Reply-To: tim@sybase.com (Tim Wood) Organization: Sybase, Inc. Lines: 31 In article emuleomo@yes.rutgers.edu (Emuleomo) writes: > >With Respect to a C-library interface, does anybody out there know >of any major RDBMS vendor that has a usable C-library interface? >(such as the one that Informix 3.3 uses?) >Major Vendors include Informix, Oracle, Sybase, IBM (DB2) etc..... > [ frustration w/ Informix deleted ] >-- Emuleomo O.O. (A previously happy user of Informix 3.3) The Sybase client library, called DBLIB, is our standard C-library interface. It was introduced with our first products. We do not presently have an embedded query-language interface. DBLIB is also available for several other languages such as FORTRAN, COBOL and ADA. DBLIB supports application login to the DBMS server, data representation conversion (i.e. byte-swap between, say, a 68000-based front-end and a VAX-based server or between floating point formats), and two-phase commit (distributed update) control among other things. Our basic aim with DBLIB is to make it an open standard for client-server database applications. We want other software vendors to use it as the basic interface for creating Sybase-compatible applications. Thus a software vendor can answer a DBMS application need by licensing DBLIB and constructing an application for the Sybase DBMS on top of it. This way, many different vendors collectively add value to the Sybase DBMS (SQL Server) where the applications needs exist. Naturally, we're convinced our product is flexible and powerful enough to meet that broad range of needs. Sybase, Inc. / 6475 Christie Ave. / Emeryville, CA / 94608 415-596-3500 tim@sybase.com {pacbell,pyramid,sun,{uunet,ucbvax}!mtxinu}!sybase!tim Voluntary disclaimer: This message is solely my personal opinion. It is not a representation of Sybase, Inc. OK.