I have uploaded version 0.1.0 to the vault. It introduces prepared statements and placeholders. No doc on this yet but it's easy to use, e.g. BOOST_AUTO(st, db.prepare(insert_into(p)(p.id, p.first_name, p.name, p.age).values(_, _, _, _))); st.execute(3, "Bart", "Simpson", 9); st.execute(4, "Lisa", "Simpson", 7); st.execute(5, "Maggie", "Simpson", 0); It also works with update, delete and select. Placeholders are allowed in predicates as well. Parameters are type-safe, if they don't agree with the type of their corresponding placeholder (as deduced by the context in which it is used), you will get a compilation error. More examples in the test file here : http://code.google.com/p/boost-rdb/source/browse/libs/rdb/test/test_odbc.cpp J-L