Re: Database language

[Mike Mandili <mam2068 at qatar-med dot cornell dot edu>]

Hi,
I Add my vote for this enhancement.
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Mike Mandili
Access & Systems Manager
Weill Cornell Medical College - Qatar

On Feb 15, 2005, at 2:01 AM, Bonn, Mairi wrote:

> I can cheerfully say we would love it as well.
>
> Màiri Bonn
> Alameda County Library
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org
> [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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> > Information Technology Services
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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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