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by **Benjamin Scherr** » Tue, 31 Aug 1999 04:00:00

I'm about to embark on development of a C++ application that will be
using ctlib to talk to Sybase 11.0.3 servers running under SCO & Linux. I was
wondering if anyone's bothered to wrap the ctlib calls in a class wrapper in
order to make a cleaner interface. If not, I imagine that I'll be doing this
as I have very little patience for plain-ol-c apis these days. Anyone
interested in such code if I have to develop it? I expect to use gcc-2.95.x
for this effort and 100% ANSI compliant C++ code.

thanx & later,

Ben Scherrey
Proteus Technologies, inc.
www.proteus-tech.com

PS: If there's another option that's recommended for C++ developers I'd be
interested but I don't want anything that requires a code preprocessor so
embedded SQL is right out.

by **Ray DiMarcell** » Wed, 01 Sep 1999 04:00:00

I suppose people interested in such code might be using one of the products
already on the market like Rogue Wave's DBTools.h++ ...

RD

> I'm about to embark on development of a C++ application that will
be
>using ctlib to talk to Sybase 11.0.3 servers running under SCO & Linux. I
was
>wondering if anyone's bothered to wrap the ctlib calls in a class wrapper
in
>order to make a cleaner interface. If not, I imagine that I'll be doing
this
>as I have very little patience for plain-ol-c apis these days. Anyone
>interested in such code if I have to develop it? I expect to use gcc-2.95.x
>for this effort and 100% ANSI compliant C++ code.

> thanx & later,

> Ben Scherrey
> Proteus Technologies, inc.
> www.proteus-tech.com

>PS: If there's another option that's recommended for C++ developers I'd be
>interested but I don't want anything that requires a code preprocessor so
>embedded SQL is right out.

by **anon.m..** » Wed, 01 Sep 1999 04:00:00

Benjamin Scherrey

OpenClient is in C.
You could try Roughewave which has C++ wrappers.
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by **Benjamin Scherr** » Thu, 02 Sep 1999 04:00:00

>I suppose people interested in such code might be using one of the products
>already on the market like Rogue Wave's DBTools.h++ ...

I wasn't aware that Rouge Wave wrapped ctlib calls. Checking it out
on their website and it appears that they do although that will be an
additional $1750 on top of the $1550 for the base product. Perhaps on a
project with a fast deadline and more complexity of database access but I
can't justify that here and, FWIW, I've always been quite unimpressed with
Rouge Wave's abstractions.

What I was hoping for was something a bit more basic that handled the
concept of connection to a server, executing a dynamic SQL statement, then
populating a container via an insertion iterator with the results. Complex
features might be better stored procedure calls or data cursors. I expect it
to be about two days to implement which is why I expect that others have
already done this.

thanx & later,

Ben Scherrey
Proteus Technologies, Inc.
www.proteus-tech.com

by **Alex Hornb** » Thu, 02 Sep 1999 04:00:00

> What I was hoping for was something a bit more basic that handled the
> concept of connection to a server, executing a dynamic SQL statement, then
> populating a container via an insertion iterator with the results. Complex
> features might be better stored procedure calls or data cursors. I expect it
> to be about two days to implement which is why I expect that others have
> already done this.

> thanx & later,

> Ben Scherrey
> Proteus Technologies, Inc.
> www.proteus-tech.com

There is an free ODBC wrapper lib for UNIX/Win32. See

http://www.orcane.net/freeodbc++/

It should at least provide some ideas.

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by **Michael Zarleng** » Tue, 07 Sep 1999 04:00:00

: I suppose people interested in such code might be using one of the products
: already on the market like Rogue Wave's DBTools.h++ ...

$2,000 for wrappers?

You've gotta be kidding.

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by **Benjamin Scherr** » Wed, 08 Sep 1999 04:00:00

Not only that but I registered online to be able to download more detailed
information from RougeWave. The next day I got an email and a phone call from
their sales staff just raring to sell me all their stuff. I don't think I'm
going to return the call or the email...

>: I suppose people interested in such code might be using one of the products
>: already on the market like Rogue Wave's DBTools.h++ ...

>$2,000 for wrappers?

>You've gotta be kidding.

by **Michael Zarleng** » Sun, 12 Sep 1999 04:00:00

: Not only that but I registered online to be able to download more detailed
: information from RougeWave. The next day I got an email and a phone call from
: their sales staff just raring to sell me all their stuff. I don't think I'm
: going to return the call or the email...

Doing the work from scratch would take, maybe 6 months, tops.
Even at big city contractor prices, that's only $50K for the
whole package, and YOU OWN IT.

And can SELL IT. Shit, I may just do this in my spare time
and distribute it as voluntary $20/copy shareware.

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Gun Control is OSHA for criminals.

by **Ray DiMarcell** » Sat, 09 Oct 1999 04:00:00

Yeah, that'll really get them ...

RD

>Not only that but I registered online to be able to download more detailed
>information from RougeWave. The next day I got an email and a phone call
from
>their sales staff just raring to sell me all their stuff. I don't think I'm
>going to return the call or the email...

>>: I suppose people interested in such code might be using one of the
products
>>: already on the market like Rogue Wave's DBTools.h++ ...

>>$2,000 for wrappers?

>>You've gotta be kidding.

by **Ray DiMarcell** » Sat, 09 Oct 1999 04:00:00

Whatever - write it yourself then ... I'm sure it'll be just as good as
theirs ...

>: I suppose people interested in such code might be using one of the
products
>: already on the market like Rogue Wave's DBTools.h++ ...

>$2,000 for wrappers?

>You've gotta be kidding.

>--
>-- Mike Zarlenga

> Gun Control is OSHA for criminals.

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