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Subject: Re: ANN: Simple components v3.2 ODBC bindings support
From: Graham Stark <graham.stark@virtual-worlds.biz>
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On Sunday, October 14, 2012 4:16:30 PM UTC+1, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> Recent discussion in comp.lang.ada indicated that GNADE ODBC is no longer
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> maintained. Presently GNADE ODBC cannot be used with 64-bit applications
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> because it failed to follow the changes in the ODBC Microsoft made to
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> support these.
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> So, I created new ODBC bindings which are now a part of the Simple
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> Components:
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> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/components.htm
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> The bindings consist of two parts.
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> The thin bindings closely follow C API. They are barely useful, because of
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> being very low-level.
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> Thick bindings (thicker than ones provided by GNADE ODBC) take away dealing
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> with ODBC handles through controlled types, provide means to binding
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> parameters and columns, to handle transactions and cursors. ODBC
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> attributes, information, diagnostic records etc can be accessed as plain
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> calls. Thick bindings are fully documented.
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> The library is packaged for Fedora and Linux, both 32- and 64-bit.
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> Simple Components is kept compatible to Ada 95.
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> The bindings were so far tested with MS Access, MySQL, PostgreSQL ODBC
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> drivers. See the test_odbc_bindings.adb if you want to test other drivers
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> and check the capacities of a given DBMS.
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> Suggestions and bug reports are as always welcome.
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> -- 
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> Regards,
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> Dmitry A. Kazakov
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> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

That looks great! I actually made a start on this, too, but got nowhere near this.