Re: Mosaic <-> Oracle

From: Tim Eyres <beyret_at_chbs.ciba.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1994 08:59:34 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Nov7.085934.16317_at_ciba-geigy.ch>


bradley_at_marcvm.marc.usda.gov (Randy Bradley) writes:
> Jason NG of NCSA wrote "GSQL" to do this, but geared toward Sybase. James
> Pitkow of Georgia Inst. of Tech. modified it to work better with Oracle.
> Check out URL:
> "http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/People/jason/pub/gsql/starthere.html"
>
> As for code examples, things get very machine/user specific at this point.
> Are you running: unix or vms; C or PERL; ORA*C or OCI ??? The examples
> that come with GSQL and the documentation should get you started.
>
> >I know some people out there have created interfaces
> >between Mosaic and Oracle databses (which is my
> >current project) so could anyone give me some
> >assistance on the matter, ie: what's the best way
> >of doing it ? Code people have written would
> >be most appreciated.
>
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Have a look at my report I've posted here. The FIZ machine is a VAX/VMS whereas everything else would be a Unix. The Mosaic client may be running on just about anything, but this shouldn't make any difference.

Tim Received on Mon Nov 07 1994 - 09:59:34 CET

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