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    How to connect a C program to Oracle Database?

    Hi guys,

    I have good experience in the Oracle Database but i have never tried connecting a C program to Oracle database or any other kind of database.

    Can anyone help how can I do that? Any ideas?

    Thanks a lot..

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    Use fopen() to open up the database. Before you read and write, you need to find out the way that Oracle files are packed and do all of the i/o in that format. The protocol is probably on Google, and if not, you can open the file itself in a text editor and see if you can figure it out yourself.

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    Depending on your version of Oracle, you can get the documentation from the Oracle web site.

    These are for version Oracle 10
    Pro*C/C++ Getting Started for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit)

    Pro*C/C++ Programmer's Guide

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