I’ve been talking with someone about the possibility of a iPhone development contract gig. All I really know at this point is that there is a company that wants to make an iPhone app that will hit their internal database. I’m not sure what the database type is( Oracle, MySQL, etc…).
I’ve wanted to know if the database type was Oracle or MySQL if there is a big learning curve for connecting to one of these across the internet?
If it’s a real pain I may do more research before accepting the conract.
I would advise against directly accessing the database from the iPhone application.
Usually, you would create a web service which accesses the database, and then you consume that web service from the iPhone application.