RE: Database language

["Metcalf, Steve" <MetcalfS at evergreen dot edu>]

I'd be interested in hearing a bit about what the benefits would be.  My suspicion has been that this development is driven by IT bureaucrats writing an sql-complicance requirement into RFPs as a matter of policy.

Steve Metcalf
The Evergreen State College

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From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org
[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org]On Behalf Of Adriene Lim
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 2:20 PM
To: mtruitt at uh dot edu; 'IUG INNOPAC List'
Subject: RE: Database language


I would LOVE this if it happened!  WSU could gain all of the benefits of a
fully functional, fully populated relational database, and using SQL,
without having to use the "Oracle option," if this were done. 

- Adriene, WSU

 

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[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Marc Truitt
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 5:11 PM
To: IUG INNOPAC List
Subject: Re: Database language

hi bill and zoltan,

has this ever been pushed as an enhancement request?  is there any reason it
could not be?

how about a virtual show-of-hands from those sites on this list that would
be seriously interested seeing Innovative migrate to an open-source
SQL-compliant back end?

UH would certainly support such an effort.

- mt

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Bill Hudson wrote:
> Hi Zoltan,
> I thought the same thing about the mysql migration after IUG last year,
but
> my sales rep checked for me and says that's not the case. There are
numerous
> supporting databases in the system that are/will be converted, but the
core
> dbase will not be converted. I was not happy to hear that as we would love
> SQL compliance without having to pay for Mr. Ellison's sailing hobby.
> 
> If anyone has heard anything different from a reliable source, I would
> definitely like to know about it.
> Thanks,
> BH
> 
>  
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org [mailto:innopac-
>>bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of zoltan dot tomory at mobot dot org
>>Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 3:08 PM
>>To: innopac at innopacusers dot org
>>Subject: RE: Database language
>>
>>Future plans seem to be that Millennium will be converted to a MySQL
>>database based system over something like a five or ten  year timeframe,
>>phasing out the existing proprietary database/database language, if my
>>recollections from IUG'04 are accurate.
>>
>>Writing their own database--that's gutsy!
>>Changing a database--equally gutsy!
>>
>>One thing from the technical information was not clear to me: The Java
>>Virtual Machine is platform independent & runs on a variety of platforms
>>including Windows, Mac, and a bunch of others. So how come the Java
>>clients
>>typical of Millennium don't do Mac? The purpose of the JVM is to translate
>>Java code to machine code of whatever platform there exists a JVM for with
>>complete integrity & my understanding is that Sun, author of Java, has
>>suffered to keep it so.
>>
>>Zoltan Tomory
>>
> 
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