Re: [Haskell-cafe] HDBC or HSQL

2007-07-26 Thread Thomas Hartman
I think we got this to work. We had to connect to MS SQL Server via odbc. "Geoffrey Zhu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/25/2007 06:11 PM To cc haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject Re: [Haskell-cafe] HDBC or HSQL Hi, > I use HSQL with PostgreSQL

RE: [Haskell-cafe] HDBC or HSQL

2007-07-26 Thread Bayley, Alistair
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Donald > Bruce Stewart > > Does anyone know why Takusen isn't on hackage yet? It appears to be > cabalised, and have a tarball: > > http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html#cat:Database > http://darcs.ha

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HDBC or HSQL

2007-07-26 Thread George Moschovitis
Ok, I am evaluating HDBC. I wrote a simple test program: ... Can I get a more specific error? Is there a way to inspect this exception more deeply? handleSqlError does the trick, for other newbies: main = handleSqlError $ do dbc <- connectPostgreSQL "dbname=test user=postgres password=,p

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HDBC or HSQL

2007-07-25 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
mutjida: > Hello, > > >Would you go as far to say that when new programmers ask which database > >binding to use, we should _recommend_ HDBC then? (As we do gtk2hs, for > >the gui libraries). > > At this point in time, my advice to new Haskell programmers would be: > first try Takusen, as long a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HDBC or HSQL

2007-07-25 Thread jeff p
Hello, Would you go as far to say that when new programmers ask which database binding to use, we should _recommend_ HDBC then? (As we do gtk2hs, for the gui libraries). I'm not sure about this. Although I didn't extensively compare HSQL and HDBC, I got the impression that they offered roughl

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HDBC or HSQL

2007-07-25 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
mutjida: > Hello, > > >I don't mean to hijack the thread. Does anyone have experience in > >using either HDBC or HSQL with Microsoft SQL server? > > > I use HDBC with MS SQL Server, Sybase, and Oracle. I use the ODBC > bindings. I am running on both a windows XP machine and a linux > machine (alth

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HDBC or HSQL

2007-07-25 Thread jeff p
Hello, I don't mean to hijack the thread. Does anyone have experience in using either HDBC or HSQL with Microsoft SQL server? I use HDBC with MS SQL Server, Sybase, and Oracle. I use the ODBC bindings. I am running on both a windows XP machine and a linux machine (although I haven't been able

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HDBC or HSQL

2007-07-25 Thread Geoffrey Zhu
Hi, I use HSQL with PostgreSQL bindings. It works great and I found it very easy to use. -- Rich I don't mean to hijack the thread. Does anyone have experience in using either HDBC or HSQL with Microsoft SQL server? Thanks, cg ___ Haskell-Cafe ma

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HDBC or HSQL

2007-07-25 Thread Rich Neswold
On 7/25/07, George Moschovitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am a Haskell newbie and I would like to hear your suggestions regarding a Database conectivity library: HSQL or HDBC ? which one is better / more actively supported? I use HSQL with PostgreSQL bindings. It works great and I found i

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HDBC or HSQL

2007-07-25 Thread david48
On 7/25/07, George Moschovitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am a Haskell newbie and I would like to hear your suggestions regarding a Database conectivity library: HSQL or HDBC ? which one is better / more actively supported? HDBC Supports Mysql only through ODBC :( _

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HDBC or HSQL

2007-07-25 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 21:04 +0300, George Moschovitis wrote: > Dear devs, > > I am a Haskell newbie and I would like to hear your suggestions > regarding a Database conectivity library: > > HSQL or HDBC ? > > which one is better / more actively supported? My impression (as a packager not a user