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- From: walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: SQL database
- Date: 8 Apr 1996 18:58:17 GMT
- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
- Message-ID: <4kbnk9$pe9@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
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- In article <louisb.4qx0@grafix.xs4all.nl>,
- Louis Van Breda <louisb@grafix.xs4all.nl> wrote:
- >In a message of 05 Apr 96 Douglas G Preston wrote to All:
- >
- > DGP> The Amiga community would be greatly served in all application areas
- > DGP> by the existance and support of _strong_ relational database services.
- > DGP> In my opinion, database resources need not only apply to commercial
- > DGP> end-use programs. The services provided by a database library are of
- > DGP> potential value to everyone.
- >
- >IMHO that is a understatement. The Amiga has a very fine OS, very Nice
- >GUI-builders / librarys, but lacks a good database system. Perhaps someone can
- >port one from UNIX pd ??
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Point me at the sources and I'll see what I can do. I'm getting more and
- more familiar with SQL but writing an SQL engine from scratch is a bit
- beyond my capabilities at the moment. I think.
-
- |._.|_ Udo Schuermann "The future's not what it used to be!"
- |(:)| ) walrus@wam.umd.edu -- Narn Ambassador G'Kar
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- I would like everyone to pronounce SQL as "squeal" instead of ess-queue-el
-