Hi, I would like to resurrect the discussion about database support in Boost by posting here the following announcement: <announcement> I'm pleased to announce that the new release of the SOCI library is available for download. The homepage of the project is: http://soci.sourceforge.net/ The SOCI library is a database-access library that tries to mimic the syntax known from Embedded SQL, but staying within the standard C++. The target audience of the SOCI library are those developers, who need an efficient, but also straightforward and easy to use interface. This new release brings the following enhancements: 1. More extensive support for object-relational mapping. 2. A plug-in architecture for backends, which allows to target various database engines by simply linking with the chosen backend. Currently, the following database engines are supported (through their respective "native" interface): * Oracle * PostgreSQL </announcement> We have prepared a small rationale FAQ that can be of interest to you: <http://soci.sourceforge.net/doc/rationale.html>. We would like to put this library under consideration for inclusion into Boost, but before we will bother you with formal submission or anything like this, it should be acknowledged that SOCI, at the moment, does not support Microsoft servers. We would like to therefore invite those of you who have some expertise with ODBC or ADO to help us writing relevant backend. Contributions targetting other database engines are also welcome, of course. Regards, -- Maciej Sobczak : http://www.msobczak.com/ Programming : http://www.msobczak.com/prog/