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- From: fgreene@hayes.com
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: Re: Using and RDBMS for scientific apps?
- Message-ID: <6559.2b304a9c@hayes.com>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 09:38:36 EDT
- References: <1992Dec16.120505.15956@newstand.syr.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec16.120505.15956@newstand.syr.edu>, podgorny@npac.syr.edu (Marek Podgorny) writes:
- > We are considering use of the Oracle RDBMS as database engine
- > for scientific applications (Earth science, physics). I would
- > appreciate any pointers to similar work, completed or in progress.
- > Oracle not essential, relational technology yes.
- >
- > Marek Podgorny, NPAC, Syracuse University
-
- In my experience, Oracle proper is not a good scientific tool. However, it
- does have a good interface to several packages, notably SAS. The easiest
- way to do it is to write a SQLPlus script to extract data in flat files
- and then pass that data into the appropriate SAS routine with the SAS
- DATA LIST function. From there on, you have access to the complete library
- of SAS functionality.
-
- There is also a direct Oracle to SAS link available, but I have never had
- the opportunity to utilize it.
-
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