From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 31 06:37:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA10727 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 06:37:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.research.megasoft.com (gw.research.megasoft.com [206.230.35.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA10700; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 06:37:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gw.research.megasoft.com (8.7.5/8.7.3-cmcurtin) id JAA04174; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:35:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from goffette.research.megasoft.com(192.168.1.2) by gw.research.megasoft.com via smap (V1.3) id sma004169; Thu Oct 31 09:34:58 1996 Received: by goffette.research.megasoft.com (940816.SGI.8.6.9/940406.SGI) id JAA23777; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:29:34 -0500 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:29:34 -0500 Message-Id: <199610311429.JAA23777@goffette.research.megasoft.com> From: C Matthew Curtin To: Igor Vinokurov Cc: Sergio@ibank.ru, Lenzi@ibank.ru, , questions@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DBMS front-end In-Reply-To: <199610311151.OAA23317@escape.cs.ibank.ru> References: <199610311151.OAA23317@escape.cs.ibank.ru> X-Face: "&>g(&eGr?u^F:nFihL%BsyS1[tCqG7}I2rGk4{aKJ5I_5A\*6RYn4"N.`1pPF9LO!Fa<(gj:12)?=uP2l01e10Gij"7j&-)torL^iBrNf\s7PDLm=rf[PjxtSbZ{J(@@j"q2/iV9^Mx>>>> "Igor" == Igor Vinokurov writes: Igor> re, Could you suggest to me any DBMS client for FreeBSD? I want Igor> to use remote SQL server (Informix/MSSQL/etc) from by FreeBSD Igor> box. Possible? Whether this is appropriate for your application is up to you. There isn't enough information here to really say for sure. But here goes. For many cases of DBMS access, I like to write Perl code that will perform whatever functions you're looking for. Very often in my case, it's a good idea to put a web-based front end on everything, so that users can have a nice point-and-click type of view of their data, generate custom reports, etc. There's a lot of good stuff in Perl that will make development of such things pretty painless. You'll want to check out the Perl modules, specifically the ones for database access, and CGI scripting. http://www.perl.com/perl/ -- Matt Curtin cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com Megasoft, Inc Chief Scientist http://www.research.megasoft.com/people/cmcurtin/ I speak only for myself. Hacker Security Firewall Crypto PGP Privacy Unix Perl Java Internet Intranet