Re: Is it possible to build a purely relational database on top of SQL?

From: Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra <leandro_at_dutra.fastmail.fm>
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 20:17:04 -0300
Message-ID: <pan.2004.07.05.23.17.04.217302_at_dutra.fastmail.fm>


Em Mon, 05 Jul 2004 15:58:32 +0200, Peter Koch Larsen escreveu:

> How far has Alphora come in terms of conformance with D?

        As far as I know it is totally conformant, only not implementing some extras like hierarchies of types – they did, but in the version 2 βs decided it was not the right thing to do.

> And if they are
> 100% conformant, do they allow SQL access to the same data?

        It’s up to the SysAdmins to block the SQL server behind a Dataphor installation. But it even provides an SQL lookalike, RealSQL, to avoid the need to.

> I believe it could give some problems querying a database with user
> defined datatypes in it

        I don’t see why.

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