Driver-Based Application Solutions
Embedded SQL applications require that a vendor's precompiler first precompile the application and then the resultant source code be compiled and linked directly with a vendor's library. In most cases, the application will also have to be bound to the database that it is accessing so that the database can generate an access plan based on static queries made within the application. If a developer wants his application to work against another vendor's database, then he needs to repeat these steps for an alternate database. It's a lot of work, but at least the source code should not need to be modified.
An alternative approach to accessing databases is to use a driver-based solution. This solution involves a driver ...
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