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From: stein@premise.ZONE1.COM (Rich Epstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Large Scale DataBase
Message-ID: <234@premise.ZONE1.COM>
Date: 24 Sep 88 20:06:19 GMT
References: <52305GFX@PSUVM> <69189@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: stein@premise.UUCP (Rich Epstein)
Organization: Premise, Inc., Cambridge, MA
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In article <69189@sun.uucp> landman@sun.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) writes:
>In article <52305GFX@PSUVM> GFX@PSUVM.BITNET writes:
>>We use a rather large database (500,000 + records) holding  a few
>>variables ( 25 +/-) related to industrial establishments.  We manage
>>it with SAS on an IBM mainframe, but are curious as to whether such
>>a dataBase could be installed in an HyperCard environment to provide
>>interactive queries (a rarity, but nonetheless...)
>
>>Any other approach you think is superior?
>
A possible solution is a product called OSTAT (Oracle/SAS Interface)
from Software Interfaces (713 460-0707). I have not used the product
but the literature claims if is available under VM/CMS and MVS.

The general idea is to allow easy transfer of SAS data to an Oracle
database. Oracle has its own tools for interactive queries. In fact,
I believe Oracle has announced a Hypercard interface to their own
database. 

-Richard W. Epstein, Robin Computing Inc. Arlington MA
-(guest at Premise)