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From: pritchaj@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (John Pritchard)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Ingres tools
Message-ID: <10477@thor.acc.stolaf.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 90 06:49:06 GMT
Reply-To: snissen@carleton.eduritchaj@thor.stolaf.edu ()
Distribution: comp.databases
Organization: Carleton College, Northfield, MN
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The college I work for purchased the INGRES database system last
summer, and we have recently begun working with release 6.2 on VAX VMS
systems.  It seems to me there are several "holes" in the tool set; that
is, there are several essential utilities that are missing.  I would
like to hear from anyone who has built similar utilities, toward the
possibility of an application trade as well as swapping experiences. 

We are working on a portable application to export an INGRES table into
a text file in standard comma separated value (CSV) format.  This is the
"mail merge" format, used by most microcomputer word processors and
spreadsheets (Lotus .PRN files).  We considered doing this with the COPY
command and then with a 3GL Pascal program, but for speed have started
in the 4GL with a simple application.  Does this ring any bells?
					Sande Nissen
					Carleton College, MN
					snissen@carleton.edu