Re: does anyone use the OCI?

In article <564DE4477544D411AD2C00508BDF0B6A1CE0AA01_at_USAHM018.amer.corp. eds.com>, Powell, Mark D <mark.powell_at_eds.com> writes
>Igor, isn't writing wrappers for OCI sort of like re-inventing the wheel.
>Pro*C is a higer level API.

I know in earlier versions of Oracle (not sure if its still true) that Pro*C called the upi directly via the sqllib library. So in essance Pro*C should be at a similar level Oracle stack wise to OCI as OCI is the client side API to the upi (at least I think thats what i remember from Steves book). Pro*c is of course at a higher level in terms of use.

I use OCI now for writing tools. I am using OCI8 and have used the older style OCI before as well. I have also written extensively in Pro*C in the late 1990's doing database migrations and interfaces.

kind regards

Pete

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