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From: bg0l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bruce E. Golightly)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Ingres question
Message-ID: <gYpjdvy00WB5A1Za9y@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 2 Aug 89 13:43:23 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Depends on what you mean by access. Ingres instructions from wither the
QUEL or SQL set can be embedded in a large number of 3GLs, including
C. BASIC and COBOL, which you named. I would not recommend bypassing the
DBMS to operate directly on the Ingres data files, if that's what you
have in mind. That defeats the purpose of using a relational DBMS.

I don't know if any other venders provide tools to access Ingres data.
RTI has been working on a set of "gateways" to provide access to other
data storage facilities from Ingres. I'm not sure what the currently
available set of those tools is.

Bruce