raelun@ibmpcug.co.uk (Paul Ellis) (06/30/90)
Hi , Well I also am interested in ay feedback from unify users on the net and more importantly any net users who want to know more on our products especially UK based people. Question : How many of you know about the Full Unify product range ? Question : What do you know about the Accell Development Suite I notice alot of users querying Oracle/Informix/Sybase etc Did you know Accell sits on top of the above Databases ? and enables easy intergration of applications accross these backends . How about the use of multiple front end systems on the same application with no code changes ? inlcuding windows/Open Look/and standard ASCII text ?? Keep an eye on the industry press you will notice a great deal of news regarding our products soon. As the open systems market matures so will our market share grow !! Those people in UK may be interested in a report from Butler Bloor comparing Databases on a variety of platforms. UNIFY 2000 comes out well in this report ! Rae. aka Paul Ellis Unify Corporation UK. -- Automatic Disclaimer: The views expressed above are those of the author alone and may not represent the views of the IBM PC User Group. -- Paul Ellis ------ raelun@ibmpcug.co.uk etc etc Relax and Have Fun !!!! The rest of the world will sort itself out given half a chance !!
bill@twg.UUCP (Bill Irwin) (06/30/90)
In <1990Jun29.170422.3296@ibmpcug.co.uk> raelun@ibmpcug.co.uk (Paul Ellis) writes: [..] >I notice alot of users querying Oracle/Informix/Sybase etc >Did you know Accell sits on top of the above Databases ? and enables easy >intergration of applications accross these backends . IMHO Unify's decision to unbundle their Accell 4GL frontend from their DB engine was one of the best marketing strategies I've seen in quite awhile. Unify developed an excellent development environment and user interface in the Accell product, but their market share in DB sales was a fraction of what it once was. Other DB vendors had gained market share for their engines, but were lacking the sophistication in the 4GL arena. Their decision not to reinvent the wheel was a wise one, which when coupled to Unify's decision to sell Accell without the Unify engine, is in the process of producing one of the most exciting environments since C. A developer now has the ability, once he has selected Accell, to develop applications that can run on any of the major DB platforms...without rewriting the application! From what I have gathered at user group meetings, one only has to be careful not to use structures for one DB that are not available in other DBs. Even so, porting to another DB and having to rewrite some sections of code to use the new engine's syntax is a far cry from rewriting the entire application. We have had Unify in-house for over seven years now and added Accell about two years ago. Unfortunately, other demands have precluded us from developing in Accell as much as we had planned, but I've seen enough of it to know it is the right choice for a portable 4GL application. Once I start converting some Unify applications into Accell I will probably have some questions to bounce off those of you who are using it. I'm going to take the developer's training at Unify first to get grounded in the basics. Teaser: Do you know how to get an SQL to run from cron that can make use of the system date for determining valid records for processing by RPT? -- Bill Irwin - TWG The Westrheim Group - Vancouver, BC, Canada ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ uunet!van-bc!twg!bill (604) 431-9600 (voice) | UNIX Systems bill@twg.UUCP (604) 431-4629 (fax) | Integration
hawkwind@encore.kent.edu (Len Jaffe) (06/30/90)
In article <209@twg.UUCP> bill@twg.UUCP (Bill Irwin) writes: [Big time text deletion] > >Teaser: Do you know how to get an SQL to run from cron that can make use >of the system date for determining valid records for processing by RPT? Set up the query in a shell script using there here document form and use the date command to fill in part of the here document. Then set up a cron entry to run that shell script. example script: --------------------------------------------------- : $DATE=`date| parsing command like awk, sed or perl` SQL << EOF select a_foo, a_bar from foo_table where a_foo = 8 a_bar = $DATE into 'foo.output' / EOF ------------------------------------------- >Bill Irwin - TWG The Westrheim Group - Vancouver, BC, Canada >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >uunet!van-bc!twg!bill (604) 431-9600 (voice) | UNIX Systems >bill@twg.UUCP (604) 431-4629 (fax) | Integration Len Jaffe -- Leonard A. Jaffe, Work: 216/591-0240 CS Dept. : hawkwind@math-cs.kent.edu It isn't easy being cheesey - Chester Cheatah
hawkwind@math-cs.kent.edu (Len Jaffe) (07/01/90)
In article <209@twg.UUCP> bill@twg.UUCP (Bill Irwin) writes: [Big time text deletion] > >Teaser: Do you know how to get an SQL to run from cron that can make use >of the system date for determining valid records for processing by RPT? Set up the query in a shell script using there here document form and use the date command to fill in part of the here document. Then set up a cron entry to run that shell script. example script: --------------------------------------------------- : $DATE=`date| parsing command like awk, sed or perl` SQL << EOF select a_foo, a_bar from foo_table where a_foo = 8 a_bar = $DATE into 'foo.output' / EOF ------------------------------------------- >Bill Irwin - TWG The Westrheim Group - Vancouver, BC, Canada >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >uunet!van-bc!twg!bill (604) 431-9600 (voice) | UNIX Systems >bill@twg.UUCP (604) 431-4629 (fax) | Integration Len Jaffe -- Leonard A. Jaffe, Work: 216/591-0240 CS Dept. : hawkwind@math-cs.kent.edu It isn't easy being cheesey - Chester Cheatah