HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: yaseen@controls.ccd.harris.com (Rahim M. Yaseen)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Attribute Name sizes in Informix
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:36:25 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Harris Controls
Originator: yaseen@rs2



Hi there:

I would like to find out what the maximum size limitations are on
the attribute names of the columns for relations in Informix.
If this depends on which version of Informix, any information
on the currently supported sizes and the next version would be
helpful.
Also, I would also like to know if any of these sizes
are dependent on the machine architecture (Sun, IBM 6000) or on
the OS (System V, BSD).

e-mail (to yaseen@controls.ccd.harris.com) would be appreciated since
I dont read this newsgroup on a regular basis.

thanks in advance

- yaseen
Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: jhc@m2lll.uucp (James H. Coombs)
Subject: Re: looking for record locking techniques
Reply-To: jhc@iris.brown.edu.UUCP (James H. Coombs)
Organization: IRIS - Brown University
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 01:27:30 GMT

In article <15077@mindlink.bc.ca> Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa Sandberg) writes:

>Would you consider moving into the 90's with a non-locking database?
>Perhaps you've heard of chronological databases, such as (old and hairy)
>LOGIX and of late, InterBase. My company does custom distributed
>wide-area networks, with frequent interruptions, and non-locking
>schemes beat locking ones, for performance and reliability. The

Could you give us references?  Or a description of the techniques?  You
know, in the spirit of the Internet and not advertising?

--Jim
From: kaiser@exaib ( Alexander Kaiser)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: sql2-standard
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 09:35:45 MESZ
Organization: WU-Wien
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: exaib.wu-wien.ac.at



We want to buy the SQL2 Standard.
Who can tell me an adress (if possible in Europe) to which we can send our order.

Alexander Kaiser
University of Economics and business administration
Department of Applied Computer Science

Augasse 2-6  1090 Vienna/Austria/Europa

e-mail: kaiser@exaib.wu-wien.ac.at
fax +43-1-31336/740
 phone +43-1-31336/4969

Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: draper@ais.org (Patrick Draper)
Subject: Re: Do Paradox and LANtastic play nice together?
Organization: UMCC
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 00:47:22 GMT

In article <1992Sep09.221415.20136@tyrell.tynet.sub.org> rodney@tyrell.tynet.sub.org (Rodney Volz) writes:
>
>Junk LANTastic. For me, it didn't work with dbase, nor with wordperfect
>or Lotus. All programs ran, but LANtastic had added some ugly "features"
>I didn't see without LANtastic.
>
>(my opinion; yours may vary)
>
>-Rodney
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>  \_____________ May your children and mine live in peace. _______________/

Lantastic is a great network system. It doesn't add any 'features' to
anything I run. Besides that, I've helped to write an application that
stretches some Lan's to the limit, but not Lantastic. It's naturally suited
to hosting distributed databases, unlike some others costing much much more
money.

Can you be more specific in what 'features' you're talking about? There are
a number of explanations for most things that any LAN will do, and not all
are related to the LAN software.


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From: pss6@quads.uchicago.edu (philip s stylianos)
Subject: About Versant, Objectivity, Ontos
Keywords: ODBMS, OODBMS, ODB, OODB
Reply-To: pss6@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:16:34 GMT

Would somebody kindly send me information about the above object-oriented
databases. In particular, about any the following:

	Boxes they run on.
	Supported languages, and whether they need to be "imported."
	Development environment (graphically or ease-of-use oriented?)
	Client-server methodology.
	Miscellany.

Sales reps welcome to reply.

Also, if you are an independent developer using one of these OODBMSs, any 
loves or hates about the system? (It helps to let it all out ;)

------------
PS
Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: dlucy@sandr.COM (Douglas Lucy)
Subject: Re: Progress database users out there?
Organization: S&R Software, Inc.
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 23:44:25 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.180705.28132@muug.mb.ca> ve4drk@muug.mb.ca
(Dan Keizer) writes:

> I haven't seen much in the way of discussion on Progress, just some
> comments on differences between different DB's.  Is anyone using it
> to any great extent?  I'd be interested in knowing what sort of
> readership is out there for it.  Being fairly new to progress, I'm not
> all that familiar with what support services are out there other than
> what progress itself provides.  Any user groups or other sources?

Try the popular mailing list at progress-list@uunet.uu.net. Subscription
requests to progress-list-request@uunet.uu.net.

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Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: bill@chaos.phys.ualberta.ca (Bill Burris)
Subject: Cognos, Data General, NeXT
Reply-To: bill@chaos.phys.ualberta.ca (Bill Burris)
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:39:16 GMT

Now that Data General is selling their machines as database servers
with networks of NeXT machines, will Cognos be writting software
for NeXT?

Bill
Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: dtodd@titan.ucc.umass.edu (David M. Todd)
Subject: Advanced Revelation Users?
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:30:24 GMT


Are there any ARev users in this newsgroup?  I'd like to know if this is
a place to get/give help with Arev.

If there were enough of us around, what about setting up an
Arev-specific newsgroup?

|/ David M. Todd \ " " " " / Phone:  413/545-0158 \ " " " " /Fax: 413/545-5345\|
|DTodd@Titan.ucc.UMass.EDU [or todd@umass.bitnet or David Todd on UMass/Saturn]|
|Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003   USA|

Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: boag@world.std.com (Scott A Boag)
Subject: another lovely test
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 04:00:21 GMT

I am testing, testing, testing!


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Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: blackman@math.tau.ac.il (Blackman Uri)
Subject: Re: Disappearing key fields in Paradox 3.5...
Organization: School of Math & CS - Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv , ISRAEL.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 11:24:36 GMT

Deleteing your *.PX index files will cause the keys to disapear, in the same
manner as TUTIL like Ernie said.

--
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blackman@Math.Tau.Ac.IL
blackman@Taurus.BITNET
From: psbayer@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul S. Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: FoxPro 2.0 SHOW GETS
Date: 6 Sep 92 23:31:26 GMT
Organization: UB


In using FoxPro 2.0 I've run across a small problem with the Show Gets
command. I have a window with data entry and when I padvance to either the
next one or the last, first or previous - it the screen does NOT change.
I can post the code,but I was hopnig someone had run into thistrouble
before.... I'm using the SHOW GETS command after teh CASE statement. I've
tried using the Trace window, it passes the SHOW GETS statement, READS THE
STATEMENT, but does NOT refresh the screen. I know it's advancing because I
have the status line active, but it doesn't show up on the screen.


ANY IDEA'S???




Thanks in advance...


- The New Computer Geek at UB       - "Just sing with us and you will see
v083kgy6@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu         - that inner joys are not forbidden
psbayer@lictor.acsu.buffalo.edu        - your inhibitions keep them hidden
AKA Paul Bayer				- Johnathan Lindsey Sheehan
Organization: Senior, Social & Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 10:44:54 -0400 
From: Lawrence Kim <lk1j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: GUI/PC databases: Info Wanted


Help ! 

I am looking for information on some kind of software that will do the 
folowing:
    1. A graphical development tool that will all me to produce screens for 
       data entry, produce reports, and will allow access to a data base that
       is included in the same package.

    2. It has to work under windows.

    3. It has to have a run time version

   
	Any suggestions or info  on products will be greatly appreciated.
Please CC any responses to my email address: lk1j@andrew.cmu.edu
From: Steve.Hayes@p0.f20.n7101.z5.fidonet.org (Steve Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: RapidFile (Borland)?
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 05:19:00 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 5:7101/20.0 - Unisa Editorial, Pretoria

During a discussion about RapidFile (Borland)? on 09-05-92  14:28 
 Larry said to All

 La> I am looking for information about Borland's RapidFile; what it is,
 La> what it's used for, sugg. retail or street cost, and any comments from
 La> people who have used it.

As far as I know it's a flat-file database program that they dropped when they
took over Ashton-Tate - it was an Ashton-Tate product.

They also dropped their own flat file database, called Reflex.

They are concentrating on development of Paradox and dBASE IV.

 
... Steve Hayes, Editorial Dept, University of South Africa, Pretoria

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From: brentw@coopsol.com (Brent Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: dBase to Ingres conversion
Date: 8 Sep 92 20:57:50 GMT
Organization: Cooperative Solutions, Inc.

jwd@rivm.nl (Jan Diesel) writes:

>I'm posting this for a colleague who expects to receive several
>dBase III+ tables on a regular basis in the near future. Each
>shipment consists of exactly one dBase III+ table.
>We need to convert the dBase data to Ingres so we're looking for
>software that creates and fills an Ingres table from the original
>dBase data.
>Does anyone know if something like this exists ?

When I worked at Ingres several years ago, I developed their PC-based
dBASE III gateway.  This would give you access to dBASE III files in 
place.  It would allow you to copy them easily to Ingres files on the PC,
from which you could then use a standard Ingres utility like COPYDB to 
put them out in a format which could be very easily loaded into an 
Ingres database on a larger machine.  This is one very easy way to do a
format conversion to Ingres (or anything else for that matter, since 
most big machines can swallow Ingres formats easier than dBASE).

I don't know if they're still selling this product (it is on Ingres 5.0,
an obsolete release) but I heard not long ago that they are selling 5.0
for DOS in an unsupported version for customers that still want Ingres 
5.0 support on their PC's.  I don't have any idea what this would cost.  

Contact your friendly local Ingres sales office.  In the Netherlands,
they're in Bijlmer (Amsterdam).


-brent williams 
 

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Cooperative Solutions makes Ellipse, a development environment for
industrial strength graphical client/server business applications.
Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: jfmburg@cs.vu.nl (JFM Burg)
Subject: data dictionaries
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 11:17:17 GMT

When I re-read my posted article I noticed the following:

"view of point" should be "point of view"

I can't explain this mistake, but I hope the flames will stay away after
this correction.

			Hans Burg
			Vrije Universiteit
			Amsterdam
			Holland

			e-mail : jfmburg@cs.vu.nl
From: brigc@world.std.com (Brig C McCoy)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Do Paradox and LANtastic play nice together?
Date: 4 Sep 92 22:13:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: world.Bu2r28.9s
Distribution: na
Organization: Soft-tek International, Wichita, KS

Had a friend ask me about how to set up his copy of Paradox (3.5) 
to work with LANtastic. Looking at the Paradox docs, I find refs
for Novell and 3com, but that's it. Does anyone know whether
LANtastic is enough like Novell or 3com that Paradox will work?

Regards...

...brig

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From: dyoung@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Donn C Young)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: HELP! db_Vista needed!!
Date: 11 Sep 92 13:51:05 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University

Teddy Nishiyama and Michael Walz both asked questions about a database
system called db_VISTA and needed some additional information.

Were presently embarking on writing a new database system to manage clinical
data from a large number of cancer research studies. Our present system is a
heirarchical MIIS-MUMPS system written by Marc Serber at Memorial Sloan-
Kettering Cancer Center in the late 70s and modified by us over the past 12
years. The system is fast and efficient, but our Data Genl MV-7800/XP 
machine is getting old and its time to move on. Weve settled on using
Raimas db_VISTA after quite a bit of soul-searching. OSU has recently chosen
Sybase as the university-wide standard database, but the costs (direct and
indirect) are relatively high.

Dick Gams, our director of Drug Development, has used db_VISTA in the past
to manage clinical data for Adria Laboratories. You might wish to drop him
a note on Compuserve (70720,1777) if youd like more info from a developer.

Raima db_VISTA (now designated Raima) is a database management system using
a combination of network and relational database models. Raima is written in
C and may be ported to many operating systems including MS Windows, OS/2, Unix,
Xenix, and VAX VMS giving you a wide range of hardware options. The system
features such things as LAN and multi-user computer support, client-server
architecture, transaction processing/logging, a SQL-based ad hoc query
system, and database security functions.

Raima [db_VISTA] is NOT FREE. Multiple user licenses are not terribly
expensive, and as is true with any system, the cost of the software is
minimal compared to the cost of your commitment to support it. If you need
additional info, call Raima Corporation at 206-562-2622 or maybe their 800
number at 1-800-db-Raima (800-327-2462). Im sure theyll be happy to 
answer your questions.

Good Luck!

Donn

Donn Young, Director, Biostatistics Unit, OSU Cancer Center, 614/293-3075
dyoung@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
From: Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa Sandberg)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: looking for record locking techniques
Date: 12 Sep 92 22:33:05 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

Would you consider moving into the 90's with a non-locking database?
Perhaps you've heard of chronological databases, such as (old and hairy)
LOGIX and of late, InterBase. My company does custom distributed
wide-area networks, with frequent interruptions, and non-locking
schemes beat locking ones, for performance and reliability. The
amount of previous versions kept, even in high-volatility tables,
is rarely a significant amount of space.
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From: lib1p@jane.uh.edu (Tammy Stark Blandino)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Books on Normalized Relational Databases
Date: 9 Sep 92 01:36:00 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Please reply to this posting to my e-mail address.  I do not
subscribe to this newsgroup and any postings will not reach
me.

A friend of mine wants suggestions on books about
Normalized Relational Databases that are "not dry reading and
not written by someone with a prima donna attitude".
I would appreciate any information any of your would be
willing to provide.  Also, if I have posted to the wrong group
I apologize.  If there is another group or better group to
post this to, please let me know.

Thank you in advance,

Tammy Stark Blandino
lib1p@jetson.uh.edu
From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: C-tree and db-VISTA, any experiances ?
Date: 12 Sep 92 15:56:01 GMT
Organization: CompuData Inc.

walz@elde1.epfl.ch writes:


>I plan to write an interactive database application generator and I'm
>looking for a database engine I can use for this. I've had a look on
>Faircom's C-tree and Raima's db-VISTA. Has anybody had good or bad
>experiance with one of those products of with some other similar products
>(C-written database engines in source form) ?

Sure would be nice to have something like that for Raima. I see it as 
extremely difficult to do though, mainly because of the rather fixed nature of 
network style databases. You just don't willy-nilly rearrange them. These 
suckers need to be designed up front and rather carefully.

fred
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From: diku0049@diku.dk (Gisli Rafn Olafsson=)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Btrieve DLL library for Visual Basic (Beta testers wanted)
Summary: A programmer friendly DLL for Btrieve
Keywords: VB,BTRIEVE,BETA
Date: 8 Sep 92 13:20:13 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen


	One of the thing that bothers many users of BTrieve is
that it does not have a programmer-friendly interface.  To sove
this I have develloped a DLL library that gives you a friendlier
interface.
	The DLL needs to be thoroughly tested before it can be used
in comercial software (it has gotten c.a. 2 months of internal 
testing).  If you are interessted in being a beta tester, please
send email to diku0049@ragnarok.diku.dk (or gro@ismennt.is).
	The DLL comes with a declaration file for Visual Basic and
a short manual.  It requires the WBTRCALL library from Novell.
	Although it was designed for Visual Basic it can be used
with all Window languages that support DLL-calling.

Gisli Rafn Olafsson
gro@ismennt.is
diku0049@ragnarok.diku.dk
From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: HELP! db_Vista needed!!
Date: 13 Sep 92 17:12:38 GMT
Organization: CompuData Inc.

tnishi@kansas.Berkeley.EDU (NISHIYAMA Tetsuto) writes:


>	There is an application that we are interested in buying that
>apparently uses db_VISTA or Raima data manager as it seems to be
>called now...we are planning on having the application ported to
>our Unix based platform...if the makers of the application using this
>database do the porting and we get ONLY the Binary code that they
>ported for us, does our division still have to buy a liscence?

Raima is presently in the mode of getting their developers to sign a new 
license agreement. It basically attempts to qualify what is what as far as 
platforms and operating systems go. I do not agree with their view of life 
that SCO UNIX, for example, would be different from the Dell SysV 4.x version 
of UNIX. There is binary compatibility there and both run on the same hardware 
base. I would have no problem paying an additional fee if we were to port to 
HP/UNIX on HP hardware but the Intel world is designed to be the most open of 
all worlds and that is why we all tend to gravitate to it. I'm not about to 
assist anyone in attempting to differentiate one Intel box from another just 
so that the software vendor can make more money.

Bottom line to your question. If the manufacturer of the application pays for 
the new development license (IE stays legal), and you then purchase his 
application, you have nothing to do with Raima and owe them no money 
whatsoever. My clients don't even know who or what Raima is. You would be in 
the same boat. It would be up to your vendor/developer to worry about these 
things.

Fred
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Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: khchan@eng.ie.cuhk.hk (chan ka hei)
Subject: Problems in using dbaseIV (1.5)
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 06:38:52 GMT

Hello everybody,

   I have installed a single user version of dbaseIV 1.5 in a Novell
Network version 2.0. One day when I used commands like:
   dele all for importer = 'CHI' or recall all
the PC simply hanged ( or dot prompt reappear after 15 mins! then I use
browse to view the result, the PC hanged again! )
   Something worth to be mentioned are that:
   The db file contain 17000 records only ( easy job for dbase )
   The command work well in dbaseIII+ running on the same network,
working on the same database.
   I have set the time out config of the Netware to max, i.e. in
SHELL.CFG, there are:
   ipx timeout=40960
   ipx retry = 1000
   Some times before, I ever encountered a problem that indexing on a
database of 700 records will create Network error, after setting the
about config, the problem was fixed. But this time, it doesn't work.
   I also have a Clipper program that having problems with the network:
The print out can't be routed to a network printer (Network error mesag
appear), but can only be routed to a local printer. I have ever fixed
this problem by using the above SHELL.CFG, but once the database getting
bigger (265 records only!), the problem appear again.

   A software dealer tell me that dbaseIV doesn't work well on Network,
he suggest me to use JEN-BMS, a very expensive software written in C.

   Sum up the symptoms above, could any one kindly enough to tell me
that what's the most probable problem? Is my Novell Netware Version too
old? Or I should get a multi-user verion of dbaseIV (the problem appear
when there is on;y one guy using the single version dbaseIV)?

   One more problem: every time after boot up dbaseIV on the network,
I have to move a 'underscore' by the mouse to some 'border' of the
control panel screen in order to get it become a 'solid cursor',
otherwise, after I entered the dot prompt, no cursor will be shown.
Anybody know why?
 

   Any tiny suggestion is appreciated and urgently required.

   Best Regards.
   Frank Chan ( khchan@eng.ie.cuhk.hk )
 

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