"gabriele renzi" <surrender_it / remove.yahoo.it> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> il Wed, 7 Jan 2004 19:06:32 +0900, Tim Bates <tim / bates.id.au> ha
> scritto::
>
> on a sidenote: someone agrees with me that we should have a common
> shared and abstract ruby/DBMS api like python/java/whatever instead of
> a wrapper package (DBI)?

What exactly is the difference between the "shared and abstract ruby/DBMS
api" and DBI?  IMHO DBI is exactly an abstract DBMC API, albeit only for
relational databases.  Do you want to unify the different SQL dialects?
Or do you want only certain things unified, e.g. date and time formats
(like JDBC tries with its escape sequences)?

Kind regards

    robert