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From: matt@hpcmmb.HP.COM (Matt Ledna)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Informix query
Message-ID: <3890001@hpcmmb.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Dec 87 17:27:46 GMT
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Organization: HP Engineering Data Automation - COLOSSUS
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>>How does everybody feel about using a non-procedural "language"
>>to write, maintain and report a database?

I am currently using an SQL based database for a development project and
have found it to be a great productivity tool.  This is especially  evident
in reporting/retrieving from the database.  Embedding SQL in a procedural
language (i.e. C) has shown very few limitations.

>I have been using a database w/ a procedureal language for 10 years
>and, if I could, I would go back to it in a second. There are so MANY
>things that simply cannot be done with INFORMIX that I am used to
>doing, that I find I waste A LOT of time trying to kludge up something
>(usually I end up running into a bug).

Just curious...what types of limitations have you found?  (I assume that
these would be generic to any relational package, not just INFORMIX). 
I, for one, hope to never see a "procedural" (hierarchical, network)
database again.

Matt Ledna