A C++ Lightweight Wrapper for Databases

摘要

Any programmer who has used a database interface such as the Oracle native API, ODBC, OLE DB, or ADO, knows that application code can get polluted by the types and structures these database interfaces supply. In other words, any technology you use tries to dominate your program! In this article, I present a library that provides a straightforward interface to any SQL database, thereby decoupling you from tedious database structures. Mixing the handle-body idiom with templates creates the decoupling without losing type safety. All you have to do is decide which database you want to use, then add/manipulate/extract data from the database by executing SQL statements, simple transactions, queries, and autocreationpf UPDATE, INSERT, and DELETE statements.