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Asked: 2026-05-10T17:01:39+00:00

What options exist for accessing different databases from C++? Put differently, what alternatives are

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What options exist for accessing different databases from C++? Put differently, what alternatives are there to ADO? What are the pros and cons?

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    1. Microsoft ODBC.
    2. The MFC ODBC classes such as CDatabase.
    3. OleDB (via COM).
    4. And you can always go through the per-RDBMS native libraries (for example, the SQL Server native library)
    5. DAO (don’t).
    6. 3rd party ORM providers.

    I would recommend going through ODBC or OleDB by default. Native libraries really restrict you, DAO is no fun, there aren’t a lot of great 3rd-party ORM for C++/Windows.

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