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From: kwalker@CS.ARIZONA.EDU ("Kenneth Walker")
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Subject: Re:  Icon and Oracle.  A great mix
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Date: 19 Oct 90 00:35:55 GMT
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	Date: 17 Oct 90 23:35:34 GMT
	From: bsu-cs!bsu-ucs!earlham!johnb@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu

	At Earlham College (Heard of it?) we undertook a project of 
	intergrating Icon with the Oralce Relational Database.  We are finished 
	now, and the project seems to have alot of potential.  

		Our interface is a new built in function called 'oracle' which 
	accepts any SQL statement (Not SQL*PLUS).  The information is returned 
	through the list data type. 

Neat!

I was wondering if there is information that would be reasonable to
"generate" rather than return in a list (I don't know much about Oracle
or SQL, or data bases in general). Generating results is a more "Iconish"
approach to returning multiple homogenous results than using a data
structure. The programmer can then put them in a list if desired.

  Ken Walker / Computer Science Dept / Univ of Arizona / Tucson, AZ 85721
  +1 602 621-4252  kwalker@cs.arizona.edu {uunet|allegra|noao}!arizona!kwalker