Re: Robert -- Re: OT: End Note ?

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from "Patricia M. Godfrey"
 on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:05:48 -0400


> Robert Holmgren wrote:
> > Well, as long as we're recommending OT software, my view is, why
> > go fishing? Use an SQL database.
>
> Last time I looked (and I admit that was a while ago). SQL was
> just what its name means: a QUERY language. I need something that
> will let me create data-input screens (and ones with double, and
> triple, and quadruple tests to limit the input operator's ability
> to type anything without checking half a dozen places to make
> sure it's not already in there).

That's why all these databases have Perl or PHP (or language X)
front ends. There is NOTHING these scripting languages cannot
handle.

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Robert Holmgren
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