Chapter 18. Qt SQL Classes

This chapter gives a general introduction to the capabilities of Qt’s SQL classes, using MySQL as an example back end.

18.1

Introduction to MySQL

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18.2

Queries and Result Sets

427

18.3

Database Models

429

Qt 4 provides a platform-neutral database interface similar to JDBC but without the annoying mandatory exception-handling code. You can use Qt to connect to a variety of different SQL databases, including Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SybaseSQL. In the examples that follow, we use MySQL[1] because it

  1. Is open source

  2. Is available on all platforms

  3. Comes pre-installed on most Linux distributions

  4. Has excellent documentation

  5. Is very widely used

Introduction to MySQL

After you have installed MySQL on your system, you can create a database from ...

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