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From: "Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Gnat & Linux & Ada & DB2
Date: 1999/11/02
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In article <m6yT3.627$Q3.2740@ozemail.com.au> , "Chris Miller" 
<chrismil@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

> I have just received the free IBM evaluation DB2 for Linux CD and was
> wondering what would be involved in  calling DB2 from Gnat Ada.
>
> I know there have been previous attempts to provide bindings / preprocessors
> to SQL from Ada but these seem quite old (?). What is the current position
> ?. Has anyone else got DB2 and Ada to talk to each other ?.

I haven't used DB2, so I can't help you in that department.

However, if you're in need of persistent storage for items that you can
read and write according to an arbitrary key, then one alternative is to
use an indexed I/O file.

<http://www.adapower.com/reuse/indexed_io.html>

The indexed I/O packages should be portable across all compilers.

It's probably not as slick as a real database, but the price is right.

Matt

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