[Info-vax] Oracle Database vs Oracle/Rdb

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/25/2019 12:16 PM, Neil Rieck wrote:
> On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 8:14:28 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 6/24/2019 7:39 AM, Neil Rieck wrote:
>>>                                                  Python has builtin
>>> support to easily connect to MySQL or MariaDB.
>>
>> Are you sure about that?
>>
>> I thought you needed to add something.
>>
>> Very easy (like 5 minutes), but not builtin.

 > I don't know why, but I often think printf() is built into "C" even
 > though everyone here knows you need to do an "#import <stdio.h>" to
 > pull it in. Sloppy thinking I suppose.

I consider printf part of C. It is not part of the C language, but
it is part of the standard C library and it is required by the C
standard.

The need to do an #include (not #import) does not change that (IMHO).

> Apologizes, I should have been a more careful with my wording. Within
> Python you need to execute an "import" statement to pull in mysql
> support.
If it was just that, then I would have considered it builtin.

But I don't think a standard Python dist comes with it ready to be
imported.

JFP's VMSPYTHON kit does come with it.

But that is a special service.

> I ignored Python for a long time until I realized that most of my
> system admin tools in CentOS-7 were written in Python.

And a lot of other stuff.

Python is widely used.

Sysadm stuff, data analytics, web etc..

Arne