Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!mirror!premise!stein 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 Lines: 21 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)