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From: nmm@apss.ab.ca (Neil McCulloch)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Empress info wanted
Summary: More on Empress
Message-ID: <2249@apss.apss.ab.ca>
Date: 10 Jul 90 21:24:06 GMT
References: <1722@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> <4923@druco.ATT.COM>
Organization: Alberta Public Safety Services
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In article <4923@druco.ATT.COM>, mdeltoro@druco.ATT.COM (DeltoroMA) writes:
> I have used EMPRESS for over three years and worked
> with ORACLE for 7 months.  If I had to choose between the
> two, I would select EMPRESS hands-down !!  It has excellent
> 4GL's - M-BUILDER and M-WRITER.  These tools are powerful and
> very easy to use.  It's SQL implemention conforms to ANSI 
> standards and offers some nice additions.

Empress also allows adding user-defined functions to both M-Builder
and SQL.  Really useful for that odd occasion when the time data types
are not quite what you wanted for example.

Also, there was some discussion in c.db re supporting graphical data.
Empress supports this implicitly and with extensibility built in
the sky's the limit.  Now, if only I could persuade my boss to buy
me a sparc station...

Support out of Toronto for us ( a small site ) has always been 
good.  It would be nice if there was a strong user group network
though.

neil  

Neil McCulloch
Alberta Public Safety Services
10320 146 St, Edmonton AB             (403) 451-7174