Chapter 8. MySQL APIs
With a number of APIs, you can use a MySQL database in applications written in various programming languages. Even if no specific language API exists, you can still use Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) to communicate with a MySQL server.
In this Chapter you will find brief examples of how to connect to a database, perform a query, and retrieve the results using the most popular APIs.
The C Language API
The C API is the underlying interface used by all the other APIs, and almost every function call in another language’s API maps directly to a corresponding C library function.
To use the C API you must link your program with the libmysqlclient.so library that is installed automatically if you compile MySQL from source. For those ...
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