Does CI-Link provide standardized APIs to access databases ?
Yes. CI-Link provides database access through a set of classes which are the same whatever the database engine being used. These classes use adapter classes to fit the dialog with such or such database engine. Information exchanges between the CI-Link language and the SQL language are made easier by the capability of setting-up SQL orders in the way of dynamic SQL. Moreover, CI-Link alleviates the communication with the database by allowing the insertion of SQL orders directly into the syntax of its language, via the EXEC SQL structure.
