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From: consult@osiris.UUCP (Unix Consultation Mailbox )
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Do you like your UNIX RDBMS?
Message-ID: <2907@osiris.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 89 18:26:24 GMT
References: <9703@dasys1.UUCP> <3378@fp.sei.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: phil@osiris.UUCP (Phil Kos)
Organization: The Johns Hopkins Health System, Information Services
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In article <3378@fp.sei.cmu.edu> dmc@sei.cmu.edu (Dawn Cappelli) writes:
>In article <9703@dasys1.UUCP> kalb@dasys1.UUCP (Stephen Kalb) writes:
>> [My chosen UNIX RDBMS] should have the following features:
>>
>> 1) C-Library Interface (and maybe embedded SQL)....
>
> [favorable comments about how Ingres provides other needed features]
> As far as points 1, 3 and 4, I think you'll find those features in most 
> commercial RDBMS'.

You won't find 1 in Ingres.  It does support embedded SQL, but *not* a
C library interface, and all the pleading I have done with RTI developers
for the last three years does not seem to have changed any minds except
mine (I must admit that I now understand their decision to support only
embedded languages, though I still disagree with it).


Phil Kos