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- From: Sparky
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
- Subject: Re: Excel and Oracle and DAL
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.162511.8102@nrtpa038.bnr.ca>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 16:25:11 GMT
- References: <8149@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>
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- In article <8149@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> ianf@cs.adelaide.edu.au (Ian
- Florance) writes:
- >Excel Four can apparently do SQL commands to unix databases.
- >You need DAL on the mac and a DAL server on the unix host.
- >We are running Oracle 6.033 on a sparc 2.
- >Presumably you get the DAL server from APDA; is this true?
- >Would the Oracle supply it?
- >After we get the DAL server will Excel 4 then be able to communicate to
- >the Oracle database?
- >Whats peoples experiences running this configuration?
- >___________________________________________ _--_|\
- >Ian Florance Phone : +6 18 228 5502 / \
- >The Univeristy of Adelaide Apple Consortium \_.--*_/
- >University of Adelaide, South Australia v
- >
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- I can't offer any input, other than to suggest that you also post to the
- comp.apps.spreadsheets group.
- --Sparky
-