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David J. Hughes (bambi@Hughes.com.au)
Tue, 13 Apr 1999 22:23:59 +1000 (EST) 

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 22:23:59 +1000 (EST)
From: "David J. Hughes" <bambi@Hughes.com.au>
Subject: Re: Lite wishlist and more
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990413222048.485E-100000@fawn.Hughes.com.au>

On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Raimi wrote:

> It seems pretty much useless to me because you want to invent the wheel
> again. There is a powerful scripting language that features everything
> you want and has an excellent interface to mSQL (and other DBs).
> For you who didn't guess: perl.

Perl is a great scripting language, but even I have to grab a copy of "the
camel" even to read a text file. If you don't use it often then you
forget all the unusual syntax real fast. Don't get me wrong, I think perl
is great, but it can be hard to learn if you want to do something fast.
Also, it doesn't provide the embedded functionality of w3-msql and has a
much larger memory footprint.

It's horses for courses. It's nice to have a choice in life.

> Anyway, I think enhancements should be done in the DB engine itself. I'd
> would like to see some operations one can do on tables. For example:
> Applying simple math on numerical fields (atomic and synchronized).
> My specific problem: I want to add something on integer fields from a
> SQL query.
> If this is possible already: Where did I miss something?

No you can't do that at the moment but we are certainly working on new
features for the backend. Stay tuned for info on the 2.1 code releases.

Bambi
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