Re: clipper -> oracle
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 01:58:35 GMT
Message-ID: <f1c26.194219$U46.5958137_at_news1.sttls1.wa.home.com>
Edvard,
It is difficult to just send you a demo program written in Oracle (that
would run). Clipper, as you know, is a file based data management system.
It works on files directly. So a client application (e.g. one running on a
PC) is basically manipulating the underlying dbf file directly. Oracle does
not work that way. Instead Oracle is a dataase that has several published
API's (ODBC, OCI, JDBC, etc.) and you manipulate the data indirectly via
commands. The program (Oracle) running on the server responds to these
commands and executes them. The difference being the Clipper program
controls the reading and writing to the dbf file itself and in Oracle you
send commands to control the underlying tables. Of course, there are many
other differences (e.g. transactions, etc.) that Clipper does not have.
Your best bet is to download from otn.oracle.com a copy of a development kit
for Oracle.
Jim
-- "Edvard Busic" <edvard_at_edvard.net> wrote in message news:92aj2d$ajja$1_at_as121.tel.hr...Received on Wed Dec 27 2000 - 02:58:35 CET
> Hi there!
>
> Can somebody send me some demo program written in ORACLE!
>
> I need some tools for work after years of working on clipper!
> Is the ORACLE the right thing?
>
> --
> Pozdrav!
>
> Mail: edvard_at_edvard.net | Cronet: +385 98 208203 | Osijek CROATIA
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