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- PEAR MDB2 is a merge of the PEAR DB and Metabase php database
- abstraction layers.
- It provides a common API for all supported RDBMS. The main difference
- to most other DB abstraction packages is that MDB2 goes much further
- to ensure portability. MDB2 provides most of its many features
- optionally that can be used to construct portable SQL statements:
- * Object-Oriented API
- * A DSN (data source name) or array format for specifying database servers
- * Datatype abstraction and on demand datatype conversion
- * Various optional fetch modes to fix portability issues
- * Portable error codes
- * Sequential and non sequential row fetching as well as bulk fetching
- * Ability to make buffered and unbuffered queries
- * Ordered array and associative array for the fetched rows
- * Prepare/execute (bind) named and unnamed placeholder emulation
- * Sequence/autoincrement emulation
- * Replace emulation
- * Limited sub select emulation
- * Row limit emulation
- * Transactions/savepoint support
- * Large Object support
- * Index/Unique Key/Primary Key support
- * Pattern matching abstraction
- * Module framework to load advanced functionality on demand
- * Ability to read the information schema
- * RDBMS management methods (creating, dropping, altering)
- * Reverse engineering schemas from an existing database
- * SQL function call abstraction
- * Full integration into the PEAR Framework
- * PHPDoc API documentation
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