Re: Is Ingres yet relational?

Paul Mason <Paul_member_at_newsguy.com> wrote in message news:<c9289301g3h_at_drn.newsguy.com>...

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> Depends what you mean. You can run Ingres, write applications for it and never
> have to type an SQL command - however some tools will use SQL themselves.
> You can also run QUEL queries against views defined in SQL - so you do not need
> to rely on SQL to query the system catalogs (many of which are still defined in
> QUEL)
>

Hmmm, almost. There are some things you can do with SQL that are *very* useful (most importantly declaring session temporary tables) that you can't do with QUEL. You have to do the definitions with SQL declare... syntax, then you can (now) manipulate those tables with QUEL afterwards.

> HTH
> Paul

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