Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!chuq
From: chuq@Apple.COM (That's MR. Idiot to you)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: database access in SuperCard (or HyperCard)
Keywords: database, 4th Dimension, Foxbase, Oracle
Message-ID: <43159@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 19 Jul 90 21:44:55 GMT
References: <1990Jul19.035636.14352@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <43149@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Fictional Reality. We can write it for you wholesale
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bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes:

>HyBase is also the only Macintosh database that has SQL support, so if
>you plan on running multi-platform with big, expensive, server-style
>databases, you could engineer some portability. (HyBase's SQL is about
>the level of ANSI SQL.)

That's not close to true. Oracle has a hypercard interface for its database.
And Apple's Data Access Language (was CL/1) also has an interface to five
VMS-based and two IBM-based SQL systems using a common front end. DAL also
has C and Pascal APIs if you want to do embedded things in those languages
as well.


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Chuq Von Rospach   <+>   chuq@apple.com   <+>   [This is myself speaking]

We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested 
with losers and nut cases -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden