#Amiga's Pathetic!
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Rick,
If by SQL interface you mean a the SQL standard, the answer is no.
Superbase Professional is strictly an Amiga type program, that is it is
designed to provide a point and click approach. However, it does have a
programming language which is essentially a modified Basic. It has a pretty
standard ANSI Basic augmented by database commands which allow you to do
everything in the language you could do with the mouse.
It seems to me that AMiga type programs tend to be more mouse
oriented, like MAC programs, such that an SQL standard interface may not be
necessary to provide good DBMS control. However, Superbase has an excellent
query interface which permits most of what SQL will permit. It is also
relational to the same extent that Dbase III is relational, except that Joins
and Projects are supported normally in Superbase. As I recall from Dbase II
days, Joins were supported, though buggy, and Projects were not. I believe
this was rectified in Dbase III.
Steve
Steve,
By an SQL interface, I mean both an interactive SQL interface and some way of
imbedding SQL in a procedural host language. With SQL Dbase IV will be
relatively relational on Codd's criteria for relation DBMS's.
Rick
Rick,
Superbase does not support the standard SQL language. It provides an
analogous interface, but any resemblance to the SQL standard language is
coincidental. It is, however, functionally similar, though I have not made a
direct comparis{on to determine the extent of comparability. I doubt,
though, that Superbase Professional would be at the level of Dbase IV in
terms of a comprehensive DBMS.
However, I doubt that Ashton would begin support of Amiga with a port
of Dbase IV. More than likely it would be Dbase III, and Versasoft already
markets DBman, which is almost Dbase III. The Datasoft program is also a
substantial DBMS. I bought the full Data soft program a long while back.
The program is something else. It does it all, works a lot like Dbase
(functionally, that is), but had such awful docs that you would work a
lifetime to figure out simple tasks. They once promised better docs, but
never delivered. I don't know if they are even still in business.
Steve