[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am a bit of novice when it comes to the UniVerse database but I am trying to dive 
> into it and learn as much as I can.  I am also new to the mailing list, so my 
> apologizes if I have gone about this the wrong way.
> 
> My problem is this:  I am running an AIX 4.3.3 with UniVerse database 10.1 
> installed.  I am hosting my companies website from Linux running  the osCommerce 
> shopping cart that backends all the information in a mySQL database.
> 
> Instead of having to type in all 250,000 items into the mySQL database, I want to 
> real time the lookups with our own database.  Is there a way for mySQL to look up 
> the tables in UniVerse, or is there a better way?
> 
There's no need to type them all in.

UV will happily export in a relational manner (look up things like OLE and ODBC) 
although I don't know how easy it is to get MySQL to read stuff from another database 
like that.

The alternative is, do you know how to create a table and populate it using MySQL 
commands? An approach I'd look at is a simple prog that dumps a UV file into a SQL 
script - run the script in your RDBMS and there's a table with all the data in ...

Cheers,
Wol
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