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- From: thompson@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (William Thompson, code 682.1, x2040)
- Subject: WingZ
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:08:00 GMT
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- I've been looking for a database package for a Unix system, and am considering
- Informix-SE among others. Originally I wasn't considering WingZ as a front end
- because I was told that it was somewhat limited as to what kind of queries it
- could process. For us, the main point of using a relational database is to
- process complex SELECT statements--the description of WingZ as a "spreadsheet"
- doesn't make it sound relevant to us.
-
- On the other hand, I think we'd be better off with a completely X-windows based
- GUI interface, rather than a character-based interface. Hence, could anyone
- comment on the ease-of-use of WingZ, and its flexibility in regard to SQL
- queries, compared to Informix-4GL?
-
- Thank you in advance,
-
- Bill Thompson
-