[Q] How suitable is Squeak for Database work

Nevin Pratt nevin at smalltalkpro.com
Sat Jan 4 01:01:39 UTC 2003


Avi Bryant wrote:

>I could as easily have said JDBC-like; I was referring to Perl's DBI/DBD
>system, which consists of a bunch of DBD (DataDase-Dependent) wrappers
>around database drivers, that all conform to the same DBI
>(DataBase-Independent) interface.
>
>In other words, a standard protocol for interacting with connections,
>queries, result sets, etc, that has implementations for a number of
>different databases.
>  
>

So, ODBC is a "DBI-like" interface, then?

Nevin





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