Re: [boost] [SQL-Connectivity] Is Boost interested in CppDB?

Subject: Re: [boost] [SQL-Connectivity] Is Boost interested in CppDB?
From: Boris Schaeling (boris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-14 18:08:54

On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:28:06 +0100, Artyom <artyomtnk_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> [...]
>> How is this different  from SOCI and why should I use CppDB over SOCI?
>>
> [...]1. Transparent prepared statements caching - it gives with 0
>    effort significant performance boost.
> 2. Transparent use of connection pooling (only you need to add
>    an option in connection string).
> 3. Full support of Sqlite3 and MySQL (SOCI's implementation of them
>    is very poor)
> 4. Unicode Support in ODBC, i.e. you can use Unicode with MS
>    SQL Server that does know speaks in UTF-8, SOCI does not
>    support this.
> 5. Support of both prepared and unprepared statements.

Having seen Dean's question the next one which comes to my mind is: How is  
this different from OTL and why should I use CppDB over OTL? :)

Boris

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