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From: dlugose@uncecs.edu (Dan Dlugose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: hypercard as a front end
Message-ID: <1990Mar22.224100.7716@uncecs.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 90 22:41:00 GMT
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In article <4351@hub.UUCP> nichols@citron.ucsb.edu (Timothy C. Nichols) writes:
>I need some advice.  I have to develop a database, and hypercard
>must fit into the equation somehow.  The database will be large
>(several megabytes), and needs to be heavily cross referenced
>(indexed).  Are there any powerful databases out there that
>Hypercard can serve as a front end for?  I am aware of Oracle,
     According to the Fall '89 APDA catalog, in an article "Hypercard
developers' lab", in Omnis 5, a "large relational database package
is a set of HyperCard externals and a special run-time Omnis module 
that lets any HyperCard stack access and manipulate an Omnis 5
database and data file"... "multi-user read/write" ... "map fields
from the Omnis 5 database to HyperCard fields" ... "remarkably fast".

    Other than this brief review, I know nothing about it.  Oracle is
SQL, so it might be of more use in accessing mainframe or mini
databases.

Dan Dlugose
UNC Educational Computing Service