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Re: Excel and Oracle and DAL

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From: Sparky
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 16:25
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In article <8149@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> ianf@cs.adelaide.edu.au (Ian
Florance) writes:
>Excel Four can apparently do SQL commands to unix databases.
>You need DAL on the mac and a DAL server on the unix host.
>We are running Oracle 6.033 on a sparc 2.
>Presumably you get the DAL server from APDA; is this true?
>Would the Oracle supply it?
>After we get the DAL server will Excel 4 then be able to communicate to
>the Oracle database?
>Whats peoples experiences running this configuration?
>___________________________________________           _--_|\
>Ian Florance         Phone : +6 18 228 5502          /      \ 
>The Univeristy of Adelaide Apple Consortium          \_.--*_/
>University of Adelaide,     South Australia                v
>


I can't offer any input, other than to suggest that you also post to the
comp.apps.spreadsheets group.
--Sparky
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