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PCLabs Survey, Part V: Programmability

From
The Hermit Hacker
Date:
Programmability
- stored procedures
- can call out to external routines (external stored procedures)
- internal programming language(s):       - flow control and loops       - user-defined (compound) structures       -
recursion       - exceptions       - can return error messages to clients       - object-oriented
 
- debugger supplied for stored procedure language(s)
- triggers       - triggers can cascade (nested triggers)       - multiple triggers per action per row
- standard database client APIs supported in addition to native API (e.g. ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB, etc.)
- revision of ODBC driver supplied
- revision of JDBC driver supplied
- precompilers supplied for which languages:
- cursors can scroll backwards as well as forwards 
- message queuing services


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Re: [HACKERS] PCLabs Survey, Part V: Programmability

From
Michael Meskes
Date:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 05:37:28PM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> - precompilers supplied for which languages:

Are there more than C?

Michael

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