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- From: jak@panix.com (Jack Krueger)
- Subject: Re: Databases from C or Pascal
- Message-ID: <C1BC6w.7yH@panix.com>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
- References: <1993Jan22.141540.3712@unix.brighton.ac.uk> <1993Jan23.000502.21026@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:25:44 GMT
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- In <1993Jan23.000502.21026@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com> enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Darrell Merrick) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan22.141540.3712@unix.brighton.ac.uk>, pdt@unix.brighton.ac.uk (taylor) writes:
- >>
- >> Does anyone know of a relational database package that can be accessed
- >> from THINK C or pascal?
- >>
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- >You can call Oracle from Think C or Think Pascal (as well as MPW C and Pascal).
- >This can be done by embedding SQL calls directly in your code. This works
- >much the same way as making regular SQL calls except you are tying Oracle
- >fields to variables in your program for the selection or insertion of data.
- >The embedded SQL calls are translated by an Oracle precompiler into a lower
- >level form which can be understood by the compiler. Oracle for Macintosh
- >includes the precompilers and libraries for doing this.
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- >Oracle and 4th Dimension are the major database packages on the Mac right now.
- >Oracle is the only one that is SQL-based. 4th Dimension cannot be called
- >externally, but it has it's own internal language, similar to Pascal, for
- >processing.
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- >Darrell Merrick
- >Lockheed Artificial Intelligence Center
- >merrick@titan.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com
-
- What about Omnis?
-