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- From: Mathew L. Spolin <mspolin@cyber.hughes.american.edu>
- Subject: Re: Manipulating an ORACLE database on HP-9000 from a Macintosh
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:34:41 GMT
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- In article <2436@cix.cict.fr> Groupe SUPAERO, dalet@reseau.Berkeley.EDU
- writes:
- > I'm a french engineer working in an engineering school.
- > We have an ORACLE database v 6.0 (soon v 7.0) on HP-9000 serie 850.
- > We plan to develop an application of student's management (name,
- >address, marks, ...)
- > running on a macintosh and manipulating the HP ORACLE database.
- >
- > The students management is divided in 2 parts :
- >
- > - Updating the database with input screens from the Macintosh.
- >
- > - Querying the database to produce reports or data about student's
- >results with
- > the possibility of processing those data with software like
- >excel,word,etc ...
- >
- >
- > Could you tell me what sorts of softwares i need to do such an
- >application ? (for each part)
-
- Practically any of the "card" based authoring systems would work,
- including Hypercard,
- SuperCard, and Oracle Card (which also works under Windows). You pass
- SQL to the
- Oracle database by way of an XCMD which sends the command through SQL*NET.
-
- Other options are the Macintosh database programs like 4th DIMENSION,
- Omnis 7, and
- Double Helix. These are relational database systems that can be modified
- to use
- SQL, although they weren't written for the job.
-
- Based on my experience with Oracle Corp. and the federal government, I
- would recommend
- using Oracle Card.
-
- ---Matt Spolin
- Washington, D.C.
-