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,b26adfb3d6ee3dbd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!knuth.cbbrowne.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Q: Open-source to access MS SQL server 2000/2005 DBs from Ada ? References: <442afe28_1@news.bluewin.ch> From: Christopher Browne X-message-flag: Outlook is rather hackable, isn't it? X-Home-Page: http://www.cbbrowne.com/info/ X-Affero: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=cbbrowne Message-ID: <87d5g4bmwe.fsf@wolfe.cbbrowne.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.19 (linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8iG7IcNB/3zXwRaI6LKCL+IpDA8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:02:25 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.229.34.90 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1143691389 64.229.34.90 (Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:03:09 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:03:09 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3682 Date: 2006-03-29T23:02:25-05:00 List-Id: After a long battle with technology, Gautier , an earthling, wrote: > What do you recommend as an open-source, reliable package (or set of > packages) to access MS SQL server 2000/2005 DBs (hopefully these > versions are not of importance) ? When none of Microsoft's software is "open source," it doesn't make much sense to expect to use "OSS" anything with it. That's not consistent with the "Microsoft Way." > The Ada code would steer DBs through simple SQL queries. It also > would call stored procedures - are these MS-specific ? Certainly they are. A "standard" scheme for stored procedures, called PL/M, didn't emerge until, I believe, SQL:2003. > I would use GNAT from the Ada side but I would prefer a > compiler-independent solution, if it exists. > > The aim is to re-engineer progressively a crappy VB.Net program. > > Thanks a lot in advance for pointers. Seems unlikely... -- (reverse (concatenate 'string "moc.liamg" "@" "enworbbc")) http://linuxdatabases.info/info/nonrdbms.html "Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever." -- Lord Chesterfield