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Re: Omnis 7 - Good DAL solution or not ?

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From: Hades
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 15:31
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pascal@CAM.ORG (Pascal Gosselin) writes:

>A while back, I read (and got emailed) a bit on information regarding
>Omnis 7's DAL capabilities.  Someone here claimed that OMNIS 7 only supported
>primitive SQL SELECT statements and was thus not the 'do-it-all' front
>end that Bylth may have been claiming.

>There is now "omnis 7 plus" (is it shipping?).  I'd like to know if has
>better DAL capabilities.

    I don't know about that, but I did see a demo of the DAL package
that 4D has, and it has very good DAL capabilities as well as lots of
SQL support, from what I could tell. It also worked flawlessley with the
DAL Server available from Apple.

--
-Hades (Brian V. Hughes) 
   "You know Television has gone to hell when, with every commercial,
	 you find yourself hoping to see the Energizer Bunny."
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Subject: Re: Omnis 7 - Good DAL solution or not ?
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