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 Documentation is found in the [wiki](https://github.com/rbock/sqlpp11/wiki)
 
-CppCon 2017:
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-Meet me at CppCon 2017: https://cppcon2017.sched.com/event/BgsV
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 So what is this about?
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 SQL and C++ are both strongly typed languages. Still, most C/C++ interfaces to SQL are based on constructing queries as strings and on interpreting arrays or maps of strings as results.