Re: The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer

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From: Neil Rieck
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:01

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"toby" <toby@telegraphics.com.au> wrote in message
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>
> You should familiarise yourself with versions 4 and 5 of the server
> before go on.
>

Version 5.x adds so many missing features they should have changed the name
to MySQL+


>
> --Toby
>

On a related note, in the book "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an
OpenVMS Application Developer" in the MySQL chapter there is a full
introduction page telling OpenVMS people all the reasons why they should be
using RDB instead. At this point, the author assumes the only reason you are
still reading is "financial pressures on your project" then shows you how to
call MySQL and also explains some of the gotchas. For people with bean
counters to answer to (most of us) a resource like this will immediately pay
for itself if one can "prove" that a product like MySQL shouldn't be used in
all circumstances just because it is almost free.

p.s. there is something cheesy about the "cover page" graphic shown on the
seller's web site at:
http://www.islandco.com/theminimum.html

Don't let this graphic fool you; the actual cover looks much more
professional and the book's contents are much better. This is the best book
on OpenVMS application programming that I've seen in the last 15 years
(since "Writing VAX/VMS Applications Using Pascal" by Theo De Klerk in 1991)
but if you don't believe me, check out this book review at www.OpenVms.org :
http://www.openvms.org/stories.php?story=06/04/02/4453076

Neil Rieck
Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/links/cool_openvms.html

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