Linux C

Hello,
I want to write a C program in Linux Platform to update a database server. Is it technically possible to access a database server
using C- Programming?

Please Reply me
Anoob T Murali

Do you want to update a database server? What do you want to do exactly, updating data or updating the database itself?

In both cases, I can't see why would you need C programming.

But please give us more input.

Assuming that you want to update the data at the database, just look for C bindings for your database server. For MySQL C API, have a look at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/c.html. Contact your vendor for further information.

By the way, you post on embedded systems session. Will this be used from a embedded device? Would you explain the purpose of it?

Hello,
Actually I need to update a data in a database using C program in Linux platform. This is for an embedded device running a Linux OS. Since the memory is low we are thinking about C-Programming. Any c,c++ variants can be used. If you please, tell me the logic how a database accessing works?

As someone already described, most database servers have C bindings to allow your application to access the database. In the two cases I have tried, the API allows you to compose SQL queries to manipulate the database in much the same way you would do it interactively with any other tool. You send queries as strings, and read the replies as strings, arrays, etc.
What DBMS are you using?

--- rod.

i would assume the mysql client is written in c so of course re-implimenting another client to connect to a mysql database server is possible (i suppose other database servers should work as well). mysql can connect to other hosts on a network.