mSQL (fwd)

[Greg Hankins]

Someone was asking about an SQL engine at the organizational meeting
last Thursday:

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>Mini SQL Version 1.0 is now available.
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>Mini SQL or mSQL is a light weight database engine that supports a
>subset of the ANSI SQL specification.  It is a single proces engine and
>doesn't use vast amounts of system resources as other engines can.  It
>supports features such as joins, ORDER BY, DISTINCT, primary keys, NOT
>NULL fields and much more.  Although it doesn't support the entire ANSI
>specification, it does support a significant subset of the spec.
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>Even though this is release 1.0 of mSQL, it is quite a stable and mature
>package.  This is the third major release of mSQL since June 1994 and
>over 2 months of Alpha and Beta testing has been performed between the
>last patch to mSQL-0.2 and the 1.0 release.
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>mSQL 1.0 has been developed under SunOS 4.1.1, Solaris 2.3, Ultrix 4.3,
>Linux 1.1.59, FreeBSD 2.0, and DEC OSF/1 3.0.  I have been told that the
>final Beta version also compiled cleanly and ran on HP-UX, NeXT, SCO,
>Sequent, Tandem, Cray, SGI and AIX.  That said, it _should_ autoconf and 
>build on just about any box that is either derived from 4.3, based on 
>SVR4, or is POSIX compliant (that just about covers most of them).  
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>Included in the release is the C library for accessing the API.  Several 
>sets of bindings to the API for script languages have been developed by 
>the mSQL user community.  These currently include ESL, Perl5, tcl/tk 
>and Python.
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>mSQL has been developed as part of the Minerva Network Management 
>environment.  The sources for mSQL are available from :-
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>	Host	: Bond.edu.au
>	IP Addr	: 131.244.1.1
>	Path	: /pub/Minerva/msql
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>Details about mailing lists etc are provided in the documentation.
>
>Pre-compiled distributions are also available for those that don't want
>to build mSQL themselves or don't have a C compiler.  They are available 
>in /pub/Minerva/msql/binaries on Bond.edu.au.  Distributions for
>the following platforms are available in binary form :-
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>	FreeBSD 2.0	HP-UX 9.03	Irix 5.2
>	Linux 1.1.59	DEC OSF/1 2.0	Solaris 2.3
>	SunOS 4.1.1	Ultrix 4.3	NeXT (FAT binaries)
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>Over 60 additions/fixes have been made since the last public release of
>the code.
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Greg

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