Re: Conversion of Ingres 4GL to 'C' .exe and accessing any oracle & Ingres

From: Pat McGibbon <pat_at_megadata.demon.co.uk>
Date: 1997/07/18
Message-ID: <3jSF7CAiZ6zzEwol@megadata.demon.co.uk>#1/1

In article <33CF02D1.2260_at_upw.com>, Michael Krolewski <mkrolews_at_upw.com> writes
>> > we want to access Oracle database from ABF/vision(Ingres 4GL). We
>> >have one option of doing this.
>> > Converting the Ingres 4GL to 'C' and embedded SQL and then to 'C'
>> >executable and then accessing the Oracle database as well as Ingres
>> >database.If anybody had done this please respond with the following
>> >information.
>>
>
>I am not absolutely sure, but Oracle does have the Transparent Gateway
>products.
>They are pricy -- Oracle to Sybase gateway was $12,000. It gives you a
>simple mechanism , you write everything in Oracle to the tables in the
>foriegn database.
>
>The major advantage is that the Transparent Gateway is almost as fast as
>naive code.

 ^^^^^ Freudian slip...?

>
>
>Another choice would be to use ODBC (if accessing the database from a
>PC). It can
>be slow and clumsy, but it gets the job done.
>
>Mike Krolewski.

Regards,

Pat McGibbon pat_at_megadata.demon.co.uk

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