State of the Nation

• DBI builds and runs on many systems

  • Unix, Windows, VMS etc.

• DBI has many available drivers

  • ODBC, Oracle, Informix, Ingres, mSQL, mysql, DB2, Adabas, Illustra, Solid, Sybase, Xbase, Postgress, Quickbase, Empress, Fulcrum, Altera, ...

• Merging the ODBC/JDBC ‘inheritance’

  • data types, meta-data etc.

• Specifying the unspecified

  • Documenting the undocumented… at last!

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Porting

All Unix variants - (not heard of any it won’t build on)

Windows 95, Windows NT, VMS

Builds out-of-the-box

Drivers

ODBC, Oracle, Informix, DB2, Ingres, Solid, …

enhancements to the DBI (inc. docs) will make it easier

ODBC/JDBC

Standard ways of specifying (data types, meta-data, options etc)

and ways of doing

The DBI won’t re-invent these wheels - but may make them easier to steer! (by offering higher-level interfaces to them).

First is data types and meta-data

Specifying the unspecified

Documenting features once they’ve stabilized

such as placeholders and bind variables