Re: interface between Visual Basic and Oracle

In article <1992Jun22.224541.5255_at_cheops.qld.tne.oz.au> you write:
>mrichter_at_oracle.uucp (Mark Richter) writes:
>
>>In article <27130_at_rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> atuzhili_at_rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Alexander Tuzhilin) writes:
>>>I'm trying to develop an application using a full-fledged relational
>>>database on a PC under MS-Windows. The application must therefore have
>>>a nice Graphical User Interface (GUI). I was thinking of using Oracle
>>>as the database and Visual Basic as the programming language since it
>>>has a nice GUI. Does anyone have any experience using the two
>>>together?
>>>
 

>>Yes. You can write in Visual Basic and use Oracle for Windows. OFW has
>>a DDE Manager component. The DDE Manager is a DDE server that runs in
>>its own window. It allows you to send SQL to Oracle using the DDE

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>
>From my experience a better product is Q+E Database Library from Pioneer
>Software. It is a library of .DLL files that allow the sending of SQL
>statements to the database product, even if it doesn't support SQL.
>Supported databases that I know of are:
> IBM DB2
> dBase
> Excel worksheet files
> Novell's NetWare SQL
> Oracle
> IBM OS/2 Extended Edition Database Manager
> Paradox
> Sybase
> Microsoft SQL Server products
> ASCII text files.
>

I also recommend a new product, Agility/VB, of Apex Software Corporation in Pittsburgh, PA. More flexible than Q+E. Includes a nifty schema editor for creating views of multiple, heterogeneous files, etc. They don't support all of the systems listed above, but they offer more programmming dexterity in exchange. Nice product. Apex's phone number is 412.681.4343.

• mark

Mark D. Richter                                             1.415.506.4852
Oracle Corporation, Desktop Products Division       mrichter_at_us.oracle.com

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