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Which is Good?????

Posted by mike_ryan [send private reply] at July 06, 2001, 04:59:30 AM


I just want to ask if anyone could help me which programming lanuages is good for database handling and which is more powerful and easier?

Posted by lordaerom [send private reply] at July 06, 2001, 09:47:16 AM

Java has fairly nice database access, and is nice overall. But maybe you should be more specific about what you want to do...

Posted by gian [send private reply] at July 06, 2001, 10:29:41 PM

Coldfusion (Several thousand dollars worth :-0) Has the best database implementation I've ever seen for doing web based stuff... otherwise, Borland's C++ Builder has a pretty good database engine (the BDE).

Posted by Cobbs [send private reply] at July 06, 2001, 11:56:48 PM

That is if you have the professional version or greater :-( (BCB)

Posted by Psion [send private reply] at July 07, 2001, 12:47:32 PM

You guys are nuts. You don't need any more "database support" or a "database engine" besides ODBC/JDBC if you aren't stupid.

Posted by gian [send private reply] at July 07, 2001, 10:17:02 PM

Coldfusion uses ODBC... it just has a really nice implementation of it

Posted by Psion [send private reply] at July 08, 2001, 12:07:12 PM

There is not much flexibility in implementing ODBC.

Posted by gian [send private reply] at July 08, 2001, 05:21:49 PM

Yes there is... there is a number of ways... look at php's odbc implementation... in my mind, it's quite horrible. Coldfusion on the other hand is a template language. There's a lot of room ofr variety.

Posted by Psion [send private reply] at July 08, 2001, 05:30:26 PM

You don't seem to know what ODBC is. As far as I know, ODBC is the exact set of C functions that database drivers must support, or some similarly constrained thing.

Posted by gian [send private reply] at July 09, 2001, 04:00:25 AM

Psion: What the hell? ODBC is "Open database connectivity" and it is not language specific... it is the software layer that keeps all database transactions generic reguardless of the database or language used.

Posted by techboy [send private reply] at July 13, 2001, 07:00:28 AM


lol

Posted by Psion [send private reply] at July 13, 2001, 07:32:05 AM

All right, techboy forced me to reply! ODBC is a set of functions that define an interface. Maybe you can use the same functions in a language other than C, but it's designed around C!

Posted by gian [send private reply] at July 13, 2001, 06:33:47 PM

Psion: NO!!!! It's an OS based interface! it is the software layer that keeps all database transactions generic reguardless of the database or language used!!!!

Posted by PurpleStorm [send private reply] at August 30, 2001, 04:25:12 PM

Well, I don't really understand the question, but you get my answer anyway.
C++ is good for making databases, because you can define a cell class and give it membersof each value in the cell, eg:
class adress
{
char name[15]
int adress;
short street;
char city[15];
char state[2];
}

adress john( Johnathan, 1234, 56, bellevue, WA );

of course, this is a really bad example, but it gives you the general idea.

Posted by lordaerom [send private reply] at August 30, 2001, 08:30:07 PM

'Hah Hah'.

Posted by Cobbs [send private reply] at August 30, 2001, 10:36:17 PM

Well, that solved the problem! ....... . . .

Posted by CHollman82 [send private reply] at October 01, 2001, 09:16:18 PM

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