Re: Prototyping via JDBC

[email protected] (Jochen Wiedmann) Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:12:10 +0200
Newsgroups perl.dbi2.dev
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On 9/12/05, Tim Bunce <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, that's certainly an option, but I'm actually more keen to
> prototype DBI2 on top of JDBC!

+1

JDBC is sufficiently close to DBI and (IMO) much more high level and conven=
ient
than ODBC.


> p.s. The org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver is a standards compliant
> pure-Java embedded (no server) ACID relational database that's very
> handy for testing.  It also happens to be what the JDBC test suite uses.

From experience, I'd recommend to use hsqldb instead. It is smaller
and easier to handle.


Jochen


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