root@dialog.UUCP (Christian Motz) (12/10/89)
I am looking for an SQL Database for the Amiga. Is there such a beast? Please EMail -- I'll summarize, interest given. Thanks. -- Christian Motz uucp: ...!uunet!mcsun!unido!nadia!dialog!root "Trust me, I know what I'm doing!" -- Sledge Hammer Bix: cmotz
rosenber@ra.abo.fi (Robin Rosenberg INF) (12/12/89)
I can't email you. The mailer doesn't like you. Here is some info to people interested in SQL on the Amiga, has the knowledge of databases required and time. There is a Public Domain version of Ingres. The system includes all source and the query language QUEL (definitely not as nice as SQL). SQL is not there. On the other hand there are free SQL grammars (Yacc format) to use (they were on comp.databases a month or two ago). Hope someone will do a port. Both PD and Commercial versions are welcome. ----------- Robin Rosenberg
a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) (12/13/89)
In article <ROSENBER.89Dec12120140@ra.abo.fi> rosenber@ra.abo.fi (Robin Rosenberg INF) writes: > There is a Public Domain version of Ingres. The system includes all >source and the query language QUEL (definitely not as nice as SQL). Tell me more. Where can I find it? We're running Ingres on our Unix box here at work; a PD version for the Amiga might be interesting. On another subject, does anyone know anything about embedded SQL in Ingres user programs? As part of our conversion to Unix, we're considering moving all of our existing files into Ingres, but we need some way to convert our existing COBOL programs to access them. Apparently user programs containing embedded SQL statements can be run through a pre-compiler which converts them to equivalent calls to Ingres in the native language (COBOL, C, FORTRAN, etc.). The snag is that Ingres doesn't offer a COBOL pre-compiler for the Unisys 5000/85, which we are using. (Since the pre-compiler must basically be a filter which converts embedded SQL to COBOL while passing the rest of the program through unchanged, you'd think that they could write it in a sufficiently portable manner that it would just take a re-compile.) If I could figure out what COBOL calls correspond to various embedded SQL statements, I could probably roll my own rudimentary pre-compiler, or just code the COBOL calls directly. Does anyone have such information? We'd really like to convert our existing data files to Ingres, because they could then be integrated with the files produced by the new GIS (geographical information system) running on the Unix box. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP I'm looking for the stationery department but they keep moving it.
kxs5829@isc.rit.edu (K.X. Saunders ) (11/14/90)
Hi, I've been working on an SQL database on and off now for some time. I think I have something that might be useful to some of you folks. This is not the same program as discussed on BIX, though. It is really rough, and not very Amiga-ized (until I can get a harddrive, I have to develop on a Unix box). If anyone is interested, I can upload it to abcfd20. -- +-----------"I'm a chicken hawk, and you're a chicken..."---------------------+ | // Only /\ kxs5829@ultb.isc.rit.edu | |\\ // /--\MIGA kyle@nick.cs.rit.edu | | \X/ Rochester Institute of Technology |