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- From: news@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (InterNet News)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: SQL*Net IP interface
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 12:12:48 -0600
- Organization: Armstrong Lab MIS, Brooks AFB TX
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- Distribution: world
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- We are interested in several projects which require programs to have
- direct access to data on our Vax to produce datafiles and graphs for use
- in several different formats, and to be able to have the programs 'converse'
- with the Vax's Oracle instances. We have already determined that there are
- several products that will a) give us real pretty graphs that we can never
- us again, and b) give us real neat flat ASCII/formatted files that we can suck
- into PC applications.
- I want to make my graph program smarter than that. I want to be able to
- query a database, and based on the data there, query other tables in this (or
- other) databases. The key here is the kind of flexibility that the 'canned'
- approaches do not really give us.
-
- "So what is it you want?" you may well ask.
-
- I want to know about the hand-shaking that happens at the SQL*Net socket
- level. I can open socket 1525 from my PC and Unix programs, and read and write
- to it. The reason I want this is to avoid spending a lot of YOUR money
- buying 3000 copies of SQL*Net and associated software.
-
- Of course, if you would rather have us spend MILLIONS and MILLIONS of your
- tax dollars, no doubt increasing the National Debt and ultimately cause ruin
- for the American Economic System, we will buy those products.
-
- (just kidding...)
-
- Is there an FTPable document that describes the various posers and
- responses at the socket level, I would appreciate hearing about it.
-
- TSgt Dave Burgess
- NCOIC, AL/Management Information Systems office
- Brooks AFB, TX
-