[comp.sys.next] Sybase

root@ithiliencc.nd.edu (Operator) (10/27/89)

Is anyone out there using Sybase?  I am particularly interested in 
peol=ple who plan to get Hyper-DB for the Mac, and use it as a front
end for the NeXT.

Mahesh Subramanya
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN  46556

(mahesh@darwin.cc.nd.edu)

fuchs@czar.Princeton.EDU (Ira Fuchs) (03/23/91)

Is there a way to utilize the Sybase server that comes with the NeXT as a
server accessible to network connected PCs and Macs or has this capability
been somehow crippled? For example, Excel for Windows comes with a
product called Q+E which makes it possible to do SQL queries against
the Microsoft SQL server (which is Microsoft's version of the Sybase server).
Is there anyway to use the NeXT-Sybase server in this role?

rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) (03/25/91)

In article <7447@idunno.Princeton.EDU> fuchs@czar.Princeton.EDU (Ira Fuchs) writes:
>Is there a way to utilize the Sybase server that comes with the NeXT as a
>server accessible to network connected PCs and Macs or has this capability
>been somehow crippled? 

As far as I understand it, the version of Sybase that comes with the
NeXT systems (or is available [soon ??] for a copy/media charge is a
limited user (5) version that only works from NeXT to NeXT.
You can upgrade the product though for more users and interplatform
capabilities, but that costs $$.

At least there is a way to develop SQL stuff relatively cheap.

Ronald
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johnw@reed.UUCP (John B. Windberg) (04/19/91)

Query,

Sure Sybase is available on the NeXT. But from what the local Sybase
people told me, only the server and no plans of anything else. If that
is the case, how does one write apps that actually run on the NeXT and
don't just use it as a server?

What other database application development tools are available? Both
those that require the sybase server and otherwise?


Thanks in advance.
johnw@reed.edu
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