Re: [MacPerl] SQL Database for Mac

[Richard Gordon <gordon@mindspring.com>]

On 1/25/99 at 12:35, ldtelgar@realitybytes.net (Jacob Steinberger) wrote:

> No, it does, I've used it :)

The original question was whether there was a Mac database that could be
used to practice SQL? FMP's SQL support is limited to its use as a frontend
for a true SQL server, with the emphasis on limited. I've never seen
anything for FMP that will do much more than translate FMP find requests
into SQL statements, send them to the server and then let you import the
results. I assume that it will also support some degree of INSERT or UPDATE
stuff as well, but only thru the export of a text file? If my understanding
is correct, this is just synchronizing a local FMP database with the SQL
server (which may be useful to some people) but conventional FMP find
requests are still used and then translated into SQL by the plugin. That's a
long, long way from actually doing SQL the way that FoxPro or Access can.

Richard Gordon
Gordon Consulting & Design
Voice: 770-565-8267  Fax: 770-971-6887



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