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- From: jalbert@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Jalbert)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.databases.theory,comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: Objects and Oracle?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.214443.24903@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 21:44:43 GMT
- Sender: news@IRO.UMontreal.CA
- Reply-To: jalbert@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Jalbert)
- Organization: Universite de Montreal
- Lines: 46
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- Greetings all!
-
- Our company develops software to run under Windows using the toolbook package
- in the early development phases. We do everything using objects and fairly
- complex inheritance schemes. Our current task is to develop some software to
- act as a front end to some relational database system. We are currently trying
- to figure out if Oracle might do the job for us. We phoned the local Oracle
- outfit but their answers were very vague, to say the least. I hope that by
- asking to net, somebody out there will know more than our local Oracle folks.
-
- Primarily, the database manager we seek should
-
- - be a true RDBMS
- - manage table creation and updates using SQL commands
- - run under Windows 3.1 on top of DOS 5.0
- - be callable from C (or C++) according to the DB2 standard of embedded SQL
- - support referential integrity, transaction security (commit rollback),
- multiusers, networks, to name the few I can think of at the moment.
-
- We discarded DBase since it's not really SQL at the root, and it's too much
- micro oriented. Our customers are more the Oracle, Informix, Ingres types.
-
- If Oracle could only have offered us SQL*form, SQL*report, and other "closed"
- means of access, we would immediately have discarded it. But we recently heard
- about Oracle Card and Oracle Access. These last two tools might make Oracle
- open enough for our needs. Let's be clear about this, we want to keep the full
- control of our Windows application running on Novell by doing all the interface
- stuff using Borland C++ and toolbook. The key word I constantly hear in the
- office these days is "open". My understanding is that DB experts programming in
- C are fully aware of what this term implies. (I'm no DB expert)
-
- I understand Oracle Card is related to Windows. Do we need that at all? Is it
- just a fancy Windows remake of old stuff, ie SQL*form and/or SQL*report? In
- which case we would never touch it.
-
- Oracle Access seems to be a revamped version of Pro-C. What are the differences
- between the two? Is one better for objects than the other? For Windows?
-
- I guess what we need is a way to access the power of SQL and RDBMS from within
- our own Windows applications. If anybody has played with those ideas and has
- something to report, please do so! We are also thinking about some small
- independent products that also boast of full SQL support, but Oracle is a big
- name and might look good on our company's record. We hope it won't prove too
- closed for our need. We are really new to DB stuff.
-
- Thank you very much for any advice, Franky
-