Re: WWW-Oracle

N F Drakos <nikos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk>
Via: uk.ac.leeds.cbl; Tue, 23 Nov 1993 18:11:01 +0000
From: N F Drakos <nikos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 93 18:10:54 GMT
Message-id: <20118.9311231810@cbl.leeds.ac.uk>
To: www-talk <www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch>, waterbug@epims1.gsfc.nasa.gov
Subject: Re: WWW-Oracle
>Paul Everitt writes:
>
>> Hi sportsfans.
>> 
>> Is anyone doing WWW-Sybase?
>
>Well, as long as we are diversifying, is anyone doing 
>WWW-Ingres?  
>
>Steve Waterbury
>NASA/GSFC
>

A possible starting point for WWW database integration might be 
a single gateway for dbperl (a standard database interface for
Perl). Although dbperl is still under development there are several
SQL interfaces defined according to this "standard".

More information on dbperl is available at
ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/perl/db/

Here is an extract from ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/perl/db/README
by Tim Bunce <timbo@ig.co.uk>:

* Existing SQL Database Interfaces for Perl
oraperl   ORACLE 6 & 7  By Kevin Stock
sybperl   SYBASE 4      By Michael Peppler, mpeppler@itf.ch, mpeppler@bix.com
sqlperl   INGRES        By Ted Lemon, mellon@ncd.com
isqlperl  INFORMIX      By William Hails, bill@tardis.co.uk
interperl INTERBASE     By Buzz Moschetti, buzz@bear.com
uniperl   UNIFY 5.0     By Rick Wargo, rickers@coe.drexel.edu
pgperl    POSTGRES      By Igor Metz, metz@iam.unibe.ch

* Non-SQL Databases and Database Interfaces for Perl and/or /bin/sh
rdb      RDB is a perl RDBMS. By Walt Hobbs, hobbs@rand.org
shql     SHQL is an interactive SQL database engine.  Written as a shell
          script, SHQL interprets SQL commands and manipulates flat files
          based on those commands. By Bruce Momjian, root@candle.uucp

Nikos.

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University of Leeds

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