Re: [Tutor] Truly generic database API

2006-06-07 Thread Peter Jessop
It depends on your system constraints. If you are only developing on Windows then you can use ODBC. ODBC supports writing to text files. It is an old fashioned technology and is not very fast. However it is well supported and mature. ___ Tutor maillist

Re: [Tutor] Truly generic database API

2006-06-06 Thread Kent Johnson
Smith, Jeff wrote: > I'm looking for a truly generic database API in that the underlying DB > could be text, XML, SQL engine, etc. > > For instance, initially, the underlying database will probably be text > files but we may at some point want to move to a real database server or > possibly an XML

Re: [Tutor] Truly generic database API

2006-06-06 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 09:22, Smith, Jeff wrote: > I'm looking for a truly generic database API in that the underlying DB > could be text, XML, SQL engine, etc. > > For instance, initially, the underlying database will probably be text > files but we may at some point want to move to a real databa

[Tutor] Truly generic database API

2006-06-06 Thread Smith, Jeff
I'm looking for a truly generic database API in that the underlying DB could be text, XML, SQL engine, etc. For instance, initially, the underlying database will probably be text files but we may at some point want to move to a real database server or possibly an XML file without having to recode