Greetings. I feel I know a reasonable amount of C++, and for what I'm working for part of my University project I have decided I need a database because I'll be storing a lot of data.
However, although we did a short module on databases a couple of years ago, I had nothing to apply what they were talking to us about to, and ultimately I've forgotten pretty much everything they spoke about. They did not get lectured on SQL.
Anyway, I am aware that 'SQL queries' are used to add and retrieve data from a database of some kind. How this is done I do not know, I would assume there is some sort of interface depending on the type of database.
So, the basic outline of what I want to do is (using C++) create a database that I can access using SQL queries.
I have done some research and various acronyms were hurled at me along with various names; ODBC, DTL, ADO, SQLite...
I repeatedly get results referring to 'SQL Server'. Now maybe I do not understand the term, but I'm trying to create and utilise a local database here, not something that runs on a server.
Does anyone have any experience with any of this? EVEN if you do not know any C++, if you have experience working with databases and/or any of the systems I have mentioned above, or anything else for that matter, please reply with whatever information you may know that you feel may be of use to me, if you can. Or reply requesting further details on what I'm trying to do.
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I apologise for the apparent lack of paragraphs in my post. For some reason when posting, it appears to ignore them.