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Anderson, Hans (hans@marsweb.com)
Sat, 07 Sep 1996 23:40:26 -0700 

Message-Id: <32326A5A.4567@marsweb.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 23:40:26 -0700
From: "Anderson, Hans" <hans@marsweb.com>
Subject: Re: [mSQL] Empress SQL vs. mSQL (1.x - 2.x)

Jon Lei wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> In fear of mSQL 2.0 not being revealed for a long time, I've started
> looking around for other Linux SQL engines. I came upon a product
> called Empress RDBMS (http://www.empress.com). It supports quite a
> number of special types that mSQL lacks (ie, dates, currency, binary etc..)
> It has Perl, C, and C++ APIs. Looks like a pretty good package.
> I'm wonder if anyone has any experience with it. I couldn't find
> prices for it so I don't know if it's even affordable but it seems
> to do what mSQL 2.0 is going to do.
>
> Any comments or opinions would be appreciated

I think that you may be making a jump too soon. Try integrating PHP/FI
into your setup. It will allow just about everything you want, and if
not, you can pretty easily write a function to do it.

PHP/FI info at:

http://www.vex.net/php

Hans 

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