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From: mmt@client2.DRETOR.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Relational Databases
Message-ID: <3580@client2.DRETOR.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 90 21:45:55 GMT
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Currently, only Oracle has a MacOS SQL product. It's a real monster, though
it seems to work OK. Note that it does *not* correspond to their unix or PC
products in terms of the supplied tools.

(Alexis Rosen)
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People might like to look at GQL, by Andyne Computing Ltd, Kingston, Ontario
(613) 548-4355.  It is a Graphical Query Language that translates into
SQL.  Ingres, I gather, has an OEM agreement with Andyne.  GQL provides
a means for easily designing, filling, and querying a relational db.
The relational db may reside on a mainframe or (I think) locally on the Mac.
It has been well reviewed in various trade journals.

Disclaimer: I was "Scientific Authority" on a contract with Andyne that
resulted in the precursor of GQL, so I have something of a vested interest
in the human-computer interaction concepts that led to it.
-- 
Martin Taylor (mmt@ben.dciem.dnd.ca ...!uunet!dciem!mmt) (416) 635-2048
There is no legal canon prohibiting the application of common sense
(Judge James Fontana, July 1990, on staying the prosecution of a case)