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In <1993Jan23.000502.21026@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com> enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Darrell Merrick) writes:

>In article <1993Jan22.141540.3712@unix.brighton.ac.uk>, pdt@unix.brighton.ac.uk (taylor) writes:
>> 
>> Does anyone know of a relational database package that can be accessed
>> from THINK C or pascal?
>> 

>You can call Oracle from Think C or Think Pascal (as well as MPW C and Pascal).
>This can be done by embedding SQL calls directly in your code.  This works
>much the same way as making regular SQL calls except you are tying Oracle 
>fields to variables in your program for the selection or insertion of data.  
>The embedded SQL calls are translated by an Oracle precompiler into a lower 
>level form which can be understood by the compiler.  Oracle for Macintosh 
>includes the precompilers and libraries for doing this.

>Oracle and 4th Dimension are the major database packages on the Mac right now.
>Oracle is the only one that is SQL-based.  4th Dimension cannot be called
>externally, but it has it's own internal language, similar to Pascal, for 
>processing. 


>Darrell Merrick
>Lockheed Artificial Intelligence Center
>merrick@titan.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com

What about Omnis?