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- From: thompson@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (William Thompson, code 682.1, x2040)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: SQL Access Group Application Interface
- Keywords: SQL, API, UNIX, 4GL, SAG
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- Date: 18 Aug 92 13:58:00 GMT
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- Does anyone know anything about the SQL Access Group (SAG), and about their
- standardized Application Interface (API)? (I think I got the acronyms
- correct.) I'm not a database programmer myself, but I've been recently looking
- into the question of buying a database product. In our application there would
- also be other database applications belonging to other groups, which would be
- from a variety of vendors, but all SQL. I've heard that each manufacturer uses
- a different standard for passing SQL queries and answers across the network,
- and that the SAG-API is supposed to address this issue, and try to standardize
- it. Does anybody have any more details?
-
- On a related issue, can anybody suggest what 4GL products are out there for a
- UNIX environment that has interfaces to a wide variety of SQL databases
- (Oracle, Ingres, Sybase, Informix, etc.)? I'm particularly interested in
- products that support X-windows/Motif, with a GUI interface.
-
- Thank you,
-
- Bill Thompson
-