FYI, I've uploaded two new database externals to my website available for
download. They're totally free and I'll probably be posting the source to
the C++ section of my website later this week.
XODBC.DLL for Win32 is an external you can use with MetaCard to connect
to ODBC compliant databases and execute SQL statements. The XODBC
external handles all of the low level calls to the ODBC API for you, and
instead offers a few high level external commands/function which you can
use to access your database. In addition if the XODBC external is ported
to other platforms(ODBC is an industry standard) the external
command/function will stay the same. You'll find a demo stack with a
detailed readme, see readme for details.
XOCI.DLL for Win32 is an external you can use with MetaCard to connect
directly to Oracle databases and execute SQL and PL/SQL statements. Like
the GINIT external XOCI uses the Oracle Call Interface, but offers a few
straightforward high level external/commands functions(identical to the
XODBC external actually) which you can use to access your Oracle
database.
Kevin and Co are working on a sql library for Oracle and other databases
(which will work cross platform) which I fully expect to succeed this
external, but I figured I'd post it anyways as it's working. I suspect
the XODBC external will be of more use as it will allow developers to
connect to any ODBC compliant database (including Access) while waiting
for fully cross platform native access to be scripted via sockets.
The url is http://members.aol.com/tuvsnyder/mcdownloads.html
Tuviah
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