Francois Degrelle's blog 
6 avril 2008
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Hello there,
I would be pleased to present the brilliant work of a nice French person, who has developped a library, capable of encapsulating the so complex OCI interface.
It is a powerful workaround for those C programmers that are not totally satisfied with the Pro*C stuff, and want to handle the powerful OCI without the headache that comes with.
Here is the summary of what his tool can do that I quote as he wrote himself:
Introduction
OCILIB is a free, open source and platform independant library, written in C, that access Oracle Databases.The OCILIB library :
- Encapsulates OCI (Oracle Call Interface which is powerful but complex)
- Hides OCI complexity
- Proposes instead a simple, readable and reusable API
- Offers up to 310 simple and straightforward APIs.
Introduction
Current version : 2.3.0 (2008-03-30)Main features
- Data binding
- Integrated smart define and fetch mecanisms
- Full Unicode support on all platorms
- Multi row fetching
- Binding array Interface for fast and massive bulk operations
- Reusable Statements
- Connection Pooling
- Global Transactions
- Returning DML feature support
- ROWIDs support
- Named Types (Object types) support (User or Builtin)
- Cursors
- PL/SQL blocks
- PL/SQL Ref cursors and Nested tables
- LOB (BLOBs/ FILEs)
- Supports lobs > 4Go
- Long datatype (piecewise operations)
- Provides "All in one" Formatted functions (printf's like)
- Smallest possible memory usage
- Date/time management
- Timestamps and Intervals support
- Error handling
- Describe database schema objects
- Access columns by index or name
- Hash tables API
- Portable Threads and mutexes API
- Supports static / shared oracle linkage
- Support runtime loading (no OCI libs required at compile / time)
- Great performances (straight OCI encapsulation)
Download
Get OCILIB from OCILIB Project page at Sourceforge WebsiteAuthor
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