Does Linux have a unified way of accessing databases? Windows has ADO...

[hamish_lawson]

Max Adams wrote:

> Does Linux have a unified way of accessing databases? Windows has 
> ADO but does Linux have any sort of mechanism for unified database 
> access independant of which database is being accessed?

Alex Martelli replied:
 
> No.

Though there is no equivalent of ADO that prevails on Linux, the 
unixODBC and iODBC projects are working at making ODBC a standard on 
Unix.

    http://www.unixodbc.org/

    http://www.iodbc.org/


Hamish Lawson