[comp.databases] programming interface to ORACLE and Sybase

monty@delphi.uchicago.edu (Monty Mullig) (08/29/89)

I need some information on the programming interface to Sybase's and
ORACLE's backends.  Do these products use ANSI Embedded SQL (within C
programs) ?  Also, we'll be using a client/server architecture over
several platforms.  These platforms (in short) will be:

	- UNIX database server and PC-DOS workstation
	- OS/2 server and PC-DOS workstation

We want to write our applications in Microsoft C on the PCs, using
embedded SQL to access the data on the database server.  We know that
the UNIX server/PC workstation will work this way under RTI Ingres.
Does ORACLE or Sybase work the way we want (C/ESQL on the client,
accessing data on the server) under either of these platforms ?  We
especially want to have the ESQL interface to the database from the
client so that our code will be more portable and more convenient to
write and less idiosyncratic than procedure call interfaces to the
database. 

Thanks in advance--

 Monty
 Univ of Chicago
 Biological Sciences Division, Information Systems