How to access a database ?
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| I will like to make query with an Oracle database 8i or 9i. The Database is on a server. How can I use SQL or PL/SQL with the database using Blitz3D language? If not, Does exist a dll to do that ? Thank you |
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| HI, as far as I know, there is no possibility (yet) to directly interface Blitz to any database. I've found something about Access database @blitzcoder, but I can't really remember the entry name. I think there are two scenarios here: 1) create your own DLL using thirdy part software - ex. purebasic, delphy,... 2) build an application which should take care of the incoming queries from a Blitz program, and return the results back to it. The way the two modules described above should communicate, is up to you; you can decide to use plan text files, or you can use a more elegant TCP stream connection. The application that stays between Blitz and the database, could even be hidden and stay listening for queries from the blitz application. I would use, for example, VB6, which comes with a pretty complete and flexible winsock tcp socket; but there are also different possibilities out there. Of course, you have to set up a minimalistic communication protocol between the two; even a simple tcp chat example could achieve this task. That said, if you choose this solution, have a look in the code archive. In my signature, also, there's a link to a tcp chat source code. Hope this helps, Sergio. |
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| I have found a dll used in Jamagic application to access a database. The URL is : http://members.shaw.ca/jamhat/Articles/JamODBC.html How can i use the CallDll function to access JamagicODBC dll and use it in Blitz3D ? |
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| When you have a Apache and PHP running you can connect to a mysql database sent with Blitz's TCP/IP commands. PHP can also connect to ODBC standard Databases like SQL or even MS Access (if you want). |
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