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| .TH "tdbc" n 8.6 Tcl "Tcl Database Connectivity" |
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| .SH "NAME" |
| tdbc \- Tcl Database Connectivity |
| .SH "SYNOPSIS" |
| .nf |
| package require \fBtdbc 1.0\fR |
| package require \fBtdbc::\fIdriver version\fR |
| |
| \fBtdbc::\fIdriver\fB::connection create \fIdb\fR ?\fI\-option value\fR...? |
| .fi |
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| .SH "DESCRIPTION" |
| .PP |
| Tcl Database Connectivity (TDBC) is a common interface for Tcl |
| programs to access SQL databases. It is implemented by a series of |
| database \fIdrivers\fR: separate modules, each of which adapts Tcl to |
| the interface of one particular database system. All of the drivers |
| implement a common series of commands for manipulating the database. |
| These commands are all named dynamically, since they all represent |
| objects in the database system. They include \fBconnections,\fR |
| which represent connections to a database; \fBstatements,\fR which |
| represent SQL statements, and \fBresult sets,\fR which represent |
| the sets of rows that result from executing statements. All of these |
| have manual pages of their own, listed under \fBSEE ALSO\fR. |
| .PP |
| In addition, TDBC itself has a few service procedures that are chiefly |
| of interest to driver writers. \fBSEE ALSO\fR also enumerates them. |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| Tdbc_Init(3), |
| tdbc::connection(n), tdbc::mapSqlState(n), |
| tdbc::resultset(n), tdbc::statement(n), tdbc::tokenize(n), |
| tdbc::mysql(n), tdbc::odbc(n), tdbc::postgres(n), tdbc::sqlite3(n) |
| .SH "KEYWORDS" |
| TDBC, SQL, database, connectivity, connection, resultset, statement |
| .SH "COPYRIGHT" |
| Copyright (c) 2008 by Kevin B. Kenny. |
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