Skip to Main Content
Programming the Perl DBI
book

Programming the Perl DBI

by Tim Bunce, Alligator Descartes
February 2000
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
364 pages
11h 47m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Programming the Perl DBI

ODBC—Embraced and Extended

In the early 1990s, a consortium of vendors formed the SQL Access Group to support SQL interoperability across disparate systems. In October 1992 and October 1993, a major part of that work was published as a draft standard entitled "Call Level Interface,” or CLI, which is another name for an Application Programing Interface, or API. However, the SQL Access Group CLI standard never really took off. At least, not in that form.

Microsoft needed to implement a similar concept, to avoid having to release multiple versions of any product that needed to talk to multiple databases. They saw the SQL Access Group CLI standard and ``embraced and extended'' it, radically. The result was the Open Database Connectivity interface, which rapidly became a de facto standard. In fairness, Microsoft turned an incomplete paper standard into a fully featured practical reality.

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Advanced Perl Programming, 2nd Edition

Advanced Perl Programming, 2nd Edition

Simon Cozens
Perl One-Liners

Perl One-Liners

Peteris Krumins
Advanced Perl Programming

Advanced Perl Programming

Sriram Srinivasan
Beginning Perl

Beginning Perl

Curtis Ovid Poe

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 1565926994Supplemental ContentErrata Page