The RDBC: ROOT Data Base Connectivity
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The current RDBC's home page is at
http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/WWW/publish/onuchin/RDBC
Please be sure to visit this site for information, documentation, news, etc.
Introduction to ROOT
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ROOT is a collection of applications, utilities and C++ libraries that is designed for analyzing data. ROOT is particularly well suited to analyzing large amounts of data, as it has been specially optimized for this purpose (ROOT can easily handle terabyte data samples).
Included with ROOT are histograms in 1, 2 and 3 dimensions, and facilities for curve fitting, function evaluation and minimization. Graphics and visualization classes allow the easy setup of an analysis system that can query and process the data interactively or in batch mode.
Thanks to the builtin C++ interpreter (called `cint') the command language, scripting (or macro) language and programming language are all one in the same, namely C++.
`cint' allows for fast prototyping of macros since it removes the time consuming compile/link cycle. It also provides a good environment to learn C++. If more performance is needed then the interactively developed C++ macros can be compiled using a C++ compiler and then dynamically linked in at runtime.
ROOT is an open system that can be dynamically extended by linking with external libraries. This makes ROOT a premier platform on which to build data acquisition, simulation and data analysis systems.
The ROOT home page is http://root.cern.ch/.
Introduction to RDBC
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This library is ROOT wrappers around libodbc++ http://orcane.net/freeodbc++ Author: Manush Dodunekov manush@stendahls.net
This library aims for JDBC-2.0 'compliance' http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/sql/package-summary.htm
It provides the single application programming interface (API) for accessing
different types of relational databases.
There's an almost complete class reference and documentation residing in
http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/WWW/publish/onuchin/RDBC
Directory Contents
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INSTALL - generic installation instructions INSTALL.local - instructions for "local installation" of main components ( no system privileges required ): root,unixODBC,MySQL-client,MyODBC,RDBC README - this file include - RDBC header files libodbc++* - libodbc++ source directory odbc - source code for the ROOT wrappers of libodbc++ (ROOT-ODBC bridge) macros - test suite macros
-- Valeriy Onuchin onuchin@sirius.ihep.su IHEP, Protvino, Moscow region, Russia