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From: pavlov@hscfvax.UUCP (840033@G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Call Interfaces to RDBMSs
Message-ID: <452@hscfvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 13:08:42 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  7 13:08:42 1987
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In article <168@bernina.UUCP>, marti@ethz.UUCP (Robert Marti) writes:
> ........................ Therefore my questions:  Are there any other
> UNIX DBMS products out there which support relational queries via a
> call interface as opposed to a pre-processor?  Do INGRES or Oracle
> explain in their manuals how to interface to their database system
> without using the pre-processor?
> 
  The Oracle HLI is subroutine-call based; Ingres uses the embedded approach.
  The qualifiers to this are that I believe that Oracle now "supports" only the
  C language as its HLI, while Ingres does support a call interface through its
  OSL "4 GL".

    greg pavlov,fstrf, amherst, ny