Dear boosters, after the lively discussion about sqlpp11 in November 2013 (http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2013/11/208388.php), sqlpp11 has evolved quite a bit and I want to give you an update. https://github.com/rbock/sqlpp11 *) sqlpp11 now supports prepared statements. For instance auto ps = db.prepare(select(all_of(tab)) .from(tab) .where(tab.alpha != parameter(tab.alpha))); ps.params.alpha = 42; for (const auto& row: db.run(ps)) { std::cerr << "alpha: " << row.alpha << std::endl; std::cerr << "beta: " << row.beta << std::endl; std::cerr << "gamma: " << row.gamma << std::endl; } *) Binding of parameters and results for binary transport is now supported. Both, parameters of prepared statements and results can be bound to in-memory data of the database now. In the example above, using the provided mysql connector, neither parameters nor the non-text results are converted to/from string. *) Support for multi-row insert: //First, you create an insert: auto i = insert_into(tab).columns(tab.alpha, tab.beta); //Then you add values (one or more times): i.values(tab.alpha = 7, tab.beta = "seven"); // Then you run the insert db.run(i); There is no support for array binding in sqlpp11, since this is highly vendor specific afaict. But it would be fairly easy to add support for this in the vendor-specific connector library. I'd be happy to support you if you wanted to give it a try. *) New interpreter for SQL expression trees: This has changed and improved a lot. sqlpp11 has been stripped of all vendor specific code and will serialize standard SQL. The connector libraries can specialize an interpreter template to change the representation of certain aspects. For instance, mysql would represent the concatenation of strings as CONCAT(a,b) instead of a||b. But of course, the connector libraries are not required to turn the expression into a string. They can interpret it any way they like. I strongly believe that this is going to allow for writing connectors to XML, input streams, maps, etc. (think LINQ). *) I added a sample code generator (in python) that generates table representations from a DDL Todo-List: ---------- *) More thorough documentation *) More thorough and easier to comprehend tests *) Some of you mentioned that Boost.Fusion or Boost.Preprocessor might do be able to do the job of code generation very elegantly. I won't do that myself but I'd be interested to see such solutions. Since code generation is not integral part of the library it would make sense to have such solutions as support libraries. *) Look into cursors FYI, I am going to give a talk about sqlpp11 and some template patterns used inside of it on February 27 in Munich, see http://www.meetup.com/MUCplusplus/events/160688442/ Please let me know your questions/thoughts/suggestions/rants. Contributions welcome, of course :-) Regards, Roland PS: Given enough interest, I intend to officially propose the library to boost (after several more iterations, of course). This is why I hope it is OK to discuss sqlpp11 on this mailing list every now and then.