Qt SQL Classes

This chapter gives a general introduction to the capabilities of Qt's SQL classes, using MySQL as an example back end.

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Qt 4 provides a platform-neutral database interface similar to JDBC but without the annoying mandatory exception-handling code. You can use Qt to connect to a variety of different SQL databases, including Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SybaseSQL. In the examples that follow, we use MySQL[1] because it

[1] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/

1. Is open source
2. Is available on all platforms
3. Comes pre-installed on most Linux distributions
4. Has excellent documentation
5. Is very widely used

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