Hello, Welcome to the Metabase Develoment discussions list. This list is for discussing matters related with the development of Matabase - the DBMS independent...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Nov 29, 1999 4:20 pm
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Hello Dark, ... Great! I am working on an oci8 driver but since I couldn't build PHP with the Ora interface functions due to some problem in Oracle EE 8.1.5, ...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Nov 29, 1999 10:22 pm
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Hello jim, ... I am not familiar enough with XML Schema W3C initiative. I suppose it is about a different kind of schema: XML document format schemas, right?...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Nov 29, 1999 10:22 pm
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Hello M.Brands, ... I haven't had the chance to study DBI but I suppose Metabase goes further beyond the goal of providing a DBMS independent interface to a...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Nov 29, 1999 10:22 pm
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Hello Jesse, ... Ok, I expect to distribute testing materials already this week, but we probably be still testing by the time you are available. Meanwhile it ...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Nov 29, 1999 10:22 pm
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Hello Michael, ... Great. I was only able to test the ODBC driver under Linux with PostgreSQL. I would be nice to test with other DBMSs in other platforms as...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Nov 29, 1999 10:22 pm
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Hello The, ... Don't worry. All the testing you may do will be just fine. The MySQL driver is currently the most developed but that doesn't mean it doesn't ...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Nov 29, 1999 10:22 pm
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Hello Vladas, ... Great. Just hold on while I finish the first documentation version and I'll upload something that everybody can test. Regards, Manuel Lemos ...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Nov 29, 1999 10:22 pm
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Hello jim, ... Well, the Metabase parser class already has to do context validation of the database schema when it parses an input schema. Don't you think it...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Nov 29, 1999 10:22 pm
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... DBI stands for DataBase Interface and is the first layer. It talks to a DataBase Driver (DBD) which is database specific. DBI code is mostly portable...
M.Brands
shrike@...
Nov 30, 1999 2:13 am
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I have both MySql and Oracle running on my Linux box. I also have Win/NT and a Mac for testing. (I use the Mac as much as possible.) I also am very familiar...
Jesse Swensen
swensenj@...
Nov 30, 1999 2:25 am
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Hello Evgeny, ... Great. We need as much testing as possible. Regards, Manuel Lemos Web Programming Components using PHP Classes. Look at:...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Nov 30, 1999 2:44 am
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Hello Juan, ... Great. Testing materials will be made available hopefully this week. I am just not sure how long it will take to complete the documentation...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Nov 30, 1999 2:45 am
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Hello Stig, I hope you don't mind that this message is already going through the list so everybody may be aware. ... Right. What I miss in PHP3, PHP4 already...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Nov 30, 1999 2:45 am
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Hello James, ... Great. I have developed a mSQL driver already but it still needs the alter table emulation to be complete. I think it can be done with some...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Nov 30, 1999 3:05 am
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Hello Jesse, ... Ok, I expect to have made available something for you to test until then. Regards, Manuel Lemos Web Programming Components using PHP Classes. ...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Nov 30, 1999 3:16 am
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Hello M.Brands, ... But that's a problem of DBMSs, isn't it? Metabase does not have any error code uniformization. It just has a call to retrieve the error...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Nov 30, 1999 3:16 am
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Greetings, My name is Jim Kraai. My team has written around 50,000 lines of PHP and Python to get a web site going over Apache & MySQL (initially PostgreSQL)....
jim kraai
jkraai@...
Nov 30, 1999 4:14 am
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... Manuel, Excellent questions. Stealing from: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-xml-schema-req ... Probably not applicable to this project (triggers/stored...
jim kraai
jkraai@...
Nov 30, 1999 4:47 am
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Hello, I have just uploaded the first beta release of metabase. Look here. You may have to register with eGroups to login. ...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Dec 1, 1999 8:34 am
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Hello, Finally I finished the documentation of Metabase API. It may be found at: http://www.egroups.com/docvault/metabase-dev/ The HTML documentation is almost...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Dec 6, 1999 8:17 am
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Hello, Finally, I have simplified the XML format and updated the Metabase database description format parser. The new test.xml file demonstrates how it looks ...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Dec 12, 1999 12:11 am
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Hello, I have just added support for 3 new Metabase data types for completeness: FLOAT, DECIMAL and TIME. Later I will document these as part of the work of...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Dec 13, 1999 8:12 am
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Hello Pedro, This is the Metabase development mailing list now. Welcome. We only speak english here. ... The current beta version is available at: ...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Dec 13, 1999 6:52 pm
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Hello Cesar, This is the Metabase development mailing list now. Welcome. We only speak english here. ... The current beta version is available at: ...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Dec 13, 1999 6:53 pm
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Hello, I have just finished documenting what was missing in the Metabase API documentation, namely the the functions of the newly added datatypes DECIMAL,...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Dec 14, 1999 2:53 am
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Hello, I have just uploaded an updated beta version of Metabase. This release consists mostly of changes to make the XML tags of the schema description format...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Dec 20, 1999 5:15 am
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Hello, Here's an updated release of Metabase. I was not yet able to finish the documentation as I hoped, but it will be due soon. This time I just added the...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Dec 24, 1999 3:17 pm
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Hello, Finally I made time to write the schema description section of Metabase documentation. Now, it only remains the driver specific information before I...
Manuel Lemos
mlemos@...
Dec 31, 1999 6:33 am
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Hello, Finally I have finished the main Metabase documentation. The documentation on the available drivers ws finally added. It might need some spelling and ...