From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,bf02c238a92156a3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Windows Ada database support. Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 09:59:53 +0100 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: <1pfbqtrpc3y3v$.1j9ia6xrmr4pc$.dlg@40tude.net> References: <2004112613364216807%david@bottoncom> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de pTdmh+HG3DqBOSv4wo4BXQH2xLBvEZz1EjXZBjYJzSt/0Ehmg= User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.12.1 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6546 Date: 2004-11-27T09:59:53+01:00 List-Id: On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:36:42 -0500, David Botton wrote: > You have that on Win32 with GWindows.Databases it uses ADO which > abstracts OLE-DB, ODBC, LDAP, and Mail, and much more. But in some sense ADO is even worse than SomeDB-binding. At least databases are more or less platform independent. In my view ADO is just as SQL, ODBC and anything else. I would consider ADO as yet another database interface to be abstracted away by our Ada(tm) way. So I am for Ada.Database in the standard. > On 2004-11-26 04:15:06 -0500, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" > said: >> What about support for MS-Access, MS-SQL server, Oracle? >> >> And more importantly why that crappy SQL over and over again? I would like >> to see a high level Ada.Database[.Relational?] package totally independent >> on what happens beneath. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de