Re: [PHP] Database Preference? -- Manuel, Michael, Miles

2001-08-30 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, James wrote: Regarding a database abstraction package: does Metabase handle all standard SQL constructs (as opposed to vendor-specific SQL extensions)? The GUI applications to be ported were built with JAM, which basically provides an abstraction layer via its JPL language. JPL has

Re: [PHP] Database Preference? -- Manuel, Michael, Miles

2001-08-30 Thread James Potts
Manuel, Thanx for the excellent overview of metabase. I will give it a test drive. A couple further questions, if you have time: Do you execute meta commands like you do with the other db interface functions, e.g., odbc_connect(), odbc_select(), etc., or are you able to encapsulate SQL

Re: [PHP] Database Preference? -- Manuel, Michael, Miles

2001-08-30 Thread Manuel Lemos
James Potts wrote: Manuel, Thanx for the excellent overview of metabase. I will give it a test drive. A couple further questions, if you have time: Do you execute meta commands like you do with the other db interface functions, e.g., odbc_connect(), odbc_select(), etc., or are you

Re: [PHP] Database Preference? -- Manuel, Michael, Miles

2001-08-30 Thread James Potts
Manuel, Thanx again for your help. I will check it out this evening. Sounds like you're a busy man. ;-) Keep up the good work. James Potts Manuel Lemos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... James Potts wrote: Manuel, Thanx for the

Re: [PHP] Database Preference? -- Manuel, Michael, Miles

2001-08-29 Thread james
I appreciate all your thoughts. Miles, regarding the price-per-seat issue, it isn't a question of the number of developers but the number of simultaneous connections to the database. For example, a 64-user Informix license is over $5,000 ... While I doubt we will need to maintain persistent