On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:58:23AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Here's a perl question (OK, not really).. Is anyone aware of a
> compatibility/wrapper library which a developer could use to take an
> app using the MySQL API and with some (ideally) minimal munging turn
> it into Oracle OCI or Pro*C code?
>
> I'm faced with converting a couple of apps that have MySQL support to
> use OCI and it's, er, frightening to say the least (OCI manual is 1,054
> PDF pages. It is in the best academic traditions for Intimidatingly
> Enormous Tomes deemed an "introduction").
Don't forget that even if you could automatically change the API over,
you'd still have to change all the SQL in the API as well. Which is
probably just as difficult a task, given how much SQL can vary from
product to product...
-Dom
