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From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Query for the Net
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Date: 8 Nov 90 20:29:12 GMT
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>    There IS someone working on a SQL engine for the Amiga. I just got through
>reading the thread on BIX. Release is slated for 2nd quarter 1991. This person
>said the engine is 100K and the SQL parser is 15K.. RIGHT NOW.

>    It even has a AREXX port.


A simple SQL server on the Amiga shouldn't be that hard.  If you are
only planning on smallish databases of a few thousand tuples per
relation, optimization need not be very sophisticated.  And then, as users
demand more, better optimizers would appear as needed.

                                                      lee