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

[John J. Lee]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Alex Martelli wrote:

> "Max Adams" <RubberDucky703 at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%4H08.543$Tu1.112303 at news1.cableinet.net...
> > 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?
>
> No.

I hope Alex hasn't had all his verbosity knocked out of him by the book-
writing process.  :(

There's nothing to stop you using (for example) the python database api on
unix.

Disclaimer: I know essentially nothing about databases.


John