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From: philf@xymox.metaphor.com (Phil Fernandez)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Parsing Query Languages in the Client or Server
Message-ID: <811@metaphor.Metaphor.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 89 02:58:46 GMT
References: <17466@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <3699@rtech.rtech.com>
Reply-To: philf@xymox.metaphor.com (Phil Fernandez)
Organization: Metaphor Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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In article <3699@rtech.rtech.com> billc@rtech.UUCP (Bill Coffin) writes:
>  * When BLI started up they expected VARs to write these parsers.  VARs
>    decided this was too hard, and thunderously ignored BLI.  BLI had to
>    write a parser and port it everywhere.  If you want VARs and others to
>    get involved, it behooves you to support a non-befuddling interface.

Wait a minute.  Metaphor was perfectly successful in writing a SQL
parser for BLI.  No one at Metaphor decided it was too hard; no one
even thought it particularly hard at all. It was just another piece of
hte project...  Now, that was 5 years ago; in this day-and-age, we'd
prefer not to have to provide this piece of the puzzle again.  SQL
parsing on the server is much more convenient...

(This opinions are mine; Metaphor pays me for real opinions)

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