SQL working [ was Re: The sorry state of the D stack? ]

denizzzka 4denizzz at gmail.com
Sun Oct 7 12:53:21 PDT 2012


On Sunday, 7 October 2012 at 17:06:31 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
> On 10/07/2012 10:55 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
>> Why only PostgreSQL. Shouldn't it also work with MySQL, 
>> Oracle, DB2,
>> PervasiveSQL, SQLite3, etc.?
>
> I don't have sufficient experience with SQL to be able to 
> really make a judgement here, but is there a case for a std.sql 
> or std.db that would provide a uniform D interface to the 
> arbitrary DB of choice?

Each database engine has a unique distinguishing features that 
make this engine interesting. (for example, different 
implementations of transactions - SQL standard does not describe 
the SQL transactions precisely enough)

So, I do not know is it possible to make a universal interface. 
And why it may need in real life?


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