for the beginners and laterals . . .: What are ORACLE PRE-COMPILERS?

Friday, December 31, 2010

Using ORACLE PRE-COMPILERS, SQL statements and PL/SQL blocks can be contained inside 3GL programs written in C,C++,COBOL,PASCAL, FORTRAN,PL/1 AND ADA.
The Precompilers are known as Pro*C,Pro*Cobol,This form of PL/SQL is known as embedded pl/sql,the language in which pl/sql is embedded is known as the host language.
The pre-compiler translates the embedded SQL and pl/sql ststements into calls to the precompiler runtime library.The output must be compiled and linked with this library to create an executable.