Day 13. Using the C API

C is a powerful language and the choice of many people who write applications that interact with a database such as MySQL. Much of MySQL and its client programs has been written in C, and the API is included with the MySQL distribution. A knowledge of the C API is essential for those writing applications in C, and C itself is a language you should consider if you are creating high-performance or standalone database applications.

Today you will learn:

  • When to use C to write MySQL applications, and the key principles of the C API

  • The datatypes provided by the mysqlclient library

  • How to connect to a MySQL database, run queries, and process the results

  • How to determine whether errors occurred during database interaction, and ...

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