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From: "news.snafu.de" <michael_erdmann@snafu.de>
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Subject: Re: creating database
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 12:43:24 +0200
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<caellumx@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> hi
>
> I'm trying to create a database using ada. I'm struggling to work out
> how to implement the record type and storage. The data only has to be
> stored in main memory.


May be you should think about using an already existing RDBMS
procudt, e.g. MySQL or PostgreSQL etc. Bindings between Ada
and the corresponding natic bindings are available at various
places (e.g.  http://gnade.sourceforge.net/).

Regards
    M.Erdmann


PS: You will find also there odb which is a simple minded approach
to object persistency which might fit you ideas better then using and
rdbms.


>
> I was thinking of creating the ADT as a record with various fields, and
> then an array with each element containing a record. However, I don't
> know how many records there'll be so it seems inefficient to declare an
> array of a particular size.
>
> Any advice one how to implement the database would be very much
> appreciated. As an ada novice, I'm struggling.
>