Overview of the Third-party SQL Engine API

Databases that can execute SQL are accessed through third-party SQL engine IPs. The OpenAccess SDK Server (in the client/server version) or the client libraries (in the local version) call the IP to process the request through the third-party SQL engine API. The third-party SQL engine API calls are high-level functions and methods for managing connections to a database, managing cursors, executing SQL statements, fetching results, and managing transactions.

IP developers are free to implement these functions and methods in any way suited to their environment. For example, an interface for Oracle can use OCI calls to implement the third-party SQL engine API.