Re: Is ESQL my only option ??
Posted in 1995
Topics: Connectivity: ESQL/C, 4GL & Embedded SQL
Ed Zaleski (oddsock@MCS.COM) wrote: : I would like to do some developing using Informix (I have experience using : Sybase and Oracle but not really Informix) and would like to make some simple : database access modules written in C. With Sybase, there is no choice, there : is no Embedded SQL (so I use Open Client libraries), Sybase does have an embedded SQL for C product, however, I prefer a straight C API myself so I don't use it. : Do I have any choice with Informix ??? : I would like to perform simple SQL database access and some cursor and : transaction control....What are my options using C ??? I would like to : avoid ESQL if at all possible... : Thanks a bunch : Ed Zaleski Informix has not come out with any kind of API yet. I wrote my own database access functions using ESQL/C and then used that as an aPI for the rest of my code. Kurt Mehlhoff kurt@infoadv.mn.org