Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!titan!drack From: drack@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Dave Rackley) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Jam/DBi: How does it work? Message-ID: Date: 31 Jan 91 14:22:58 GMT References: <1991Jan31.002416.24897@MDI.COM> Sender: news@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu Organization: Applied Research Laboratories, University of Texas at Austin. Lines: 43 In-reply-to: rudoff@MDI.COM's message of 31 Jan 91 00:24:16 GMT In article <1991Jan31.002416.24897@MDI.COM> rudoff@MDI.COM (Doug Rudoff) writes: > I have seen JAM in action and have some literature on JAM/DBi, but I'm > not quite sure how JAM/DBi works. > I get the impression that it starts up a database process and sends SQL > queries to it, and somehow reads in the returns and passes it back > into the executable C code. Is this correct? Or, does it require the > use of a embedded SQL in the code? JAM/DBi adds SQL commands to its procedural language (JPL), which works much like an interpreted language. In fact the JPL can be stored in flat, ASCII files and "called" from within a window. [stuff deleted] > If JAM/DBi doesn't use embedded SQL, can it be used as a replacement > for it? I tested JAM/DBi with Oracle--it seems to be a fair replacement for embedded SQL. However, one must still write queries, since JAM/DBi doesn't generate queries. > If someone has some source code generated by JAM/DBi, I would be > interested in seeing it. JAM/DBi (for Oracle) doesn't produce source code! For more info: JYACC (JAM) Sales, 800-458-3313 BTW I have no connection with JYACC, except as a customer. -- DISCLAIMER: I, hereby, disclaim any disclaimer except this disclaimer. +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ | David Rackley | Now comes the really weird part...You know | | Applied Research Laboratories | the part where I know how to tap dance, but | | The University of Texas | only while wearing golf shoes... | | Austin, TX. 78758 | ...Ponderous, man, really ponderous! | +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+