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Subj:	Announcing an interpreter with Oracle and RDB interfaces

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From: gjc@world.std.com (George J Carrette)
Subject: Announcing an interpreter with Oracle and RDB interfaces
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Summary: scheme programming language SQL support.
Keywords: scheme,lisp,sql,oracle,rdb
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 12:32:57 GMT
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Announcing the availability of an interpreter with support for 
manipulation of Oracle and DIGITAL RDB relational databases.

Example usage:

$@MAKEFILE EXTRA SQL_ORACLE
$siod -g0 -h15000 -isql_oracle.scm
> (oracle-sql-init "username" "password")
> (oracle-sql "select * from lab_data") ==>
  ((TAG_ID STATUS VALUE)
   ("FC101" OK 33.45)
   ("FC203" OK -23.33))

oracle-sql and rdb-sql are the convenience function interface,
which are built in scheme on top of the more general Oracle Call Interface
and RDB SQL Services. One interesting thing about this interface is that
it allows you to perform operations such as CREATE TABLE that you could
not otherwise perform in an RDB Runtime License configuration.

Anonymous ftp from world.std.com pub/gjc/siod-3.0-beta

Mail to gjc@world.std.com if you are unable to ftp.

The interpreter has been run on SunOS, VMS, Windows NT, Macintosh, OS/2.

-gjc