Re: Is Ingres yet relational?

In article <bcb8c360.0405261218.6ad6af9_at_posting.google.com>, Tony Douglas says...
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>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)
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>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.
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Well OK - but I stand by my original statement. There are things that are available in SQL that aren't in QUEL - but QUEL is perfectly useable and supported. The fact is that QUEL was just never developed beyond a certain point (not sure exactly when). Received on Thu May 27 2004 - 11:20:51 CEST