Objective
Provides a set of, cross-platform, C++ class libraries
to aid C++ developers in their use of ODBC. Adds important functionality
such as threaded execution and is designed and optimized to work specifically
with ODBC. This makes ODBC++ an ideal solution for C++ developers working
with relational databases or any other data source which is enabled
with an ODBC driver (all the majour databases).
This library is a wrapper for ODBC (with usability and portability
features) not an abstraction from ODBC.
Guidelines
This library is NOT intended to create, yet another, abstraction
layer from ODBC so no attempt is made to hide ODBC data types and
constants etc. The MFC approach to this was to create just a few classes
(i.e. CDatabase and CRecordset). These MFC classes do not correlate
well to the underlying ODBC CLI and this prevents some C functionality
from being used properly. ODBC++ classes correlate well with the ODBC
CLI providing a much more natural fit.
Source
Code
ODBC++ source code is licensed under the LGPL and is hosted
at Source Forge
under the UNIX friendly name 'odbc-class-lib'. This project should not be
confused with freeodbc/odbc++ which is a JDBC like interface to ODBC.
The ODBC++ project has been started by Peter Harvey (the current
project leader) and development is sponsored by CodeByDesign. Peter
Harvey is also the founder of unixODBC (currently lead by Nick Gorham).
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Whats is ODBC?
Open
Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a widely accepted application programming
interface (API) for database access. It is based on the Call-Level Interface
(CLI) specifications from X/Open and ISO/IEC for database APIs and uses
Structured Query Language (SQL) as its database access language.
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