Note: Much of this information may be out of date. It has not been updated since 01 February 1995.
Many people have an application which needs a W3 server and is based in a relational database. This is a sign-up sheet, designed to put those interested in touch with each other.
You can look at the archive of [email protected], a mailing list which was dedicated to discussions on this field.
Arthur did some work in this area while at CERN in 1992. See notes he wrote on leaving and pointers to sources .. This gateway allowed a user to enter an SQL expression as a search text to a W3 server. It formatted the results of the query and sent them back as plain text. This code contains all the include files and library references necessary to make any WWW-Oracle gateway (a large part of the job).
Many other people have expressed an interest. The writing of this summary was prompted by a request from:
Peter Joftis -- [email protected] +1 313 764-6554 Voice Director, Computer Support Group +1 313 764-8041 FAX Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Drew Burton , <[email protected]> at the American Mathematical Society writes, "At the Math Society we serve up information useful to mathematicians on an internet node named e-math. Right now we have a smattering of Gopher/WAIS and a bunch of in-house Ingres applications driven off a good-sized bibliographic database. If we can really do SQL queries off the back of a WWW client (even if it requires work on our part), we'd be very interested."
See message ( french or english ) explaining what he has done. Now he's working on a Gateway WWW - Oraperl for Plexus 2.2 ( english or french )
See later message .
Guy Decoux INRA Laboratoire de Genetique Vegetale Tel : (33 1) 69 41 97 37 Fax : (33 1) 69 41 27 90 e-mail : [email protected]
From: PYR2:[email protected] To: [email protected] Mike, Do you have any additional information about Oracle links to the World Wide WEB? Thanks, Dianne Haller --------------------------- Received: 01-17-94 03:12 Sent: 01-17-94 11:04 From: pcole.UK To: mkennedy.US dknight.US stonas.US bnewbold.US dhaller.US Cc: ajeffrie.UK [...] I am not aware of any Oracle links to the WEB. Two possible contacts for more information : Oracle's CERN Account Manager (Mike Turnill, email : [email protected]) knows about WWW ... perhaps he could be contacted for more info. Another interested party is John Danner, Project Leader for Oracle Book email : [email protected]). I believe that he's been following WWW, WAIS, and Gopher for several months now. [...] Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pete Cole Internet : [email protected] Oracle Text Server Division Oracle*Mail : pcole.uk Oracle European Development Centre Guildford Road Chertsey Phone : +44 932 87 2020 extension 2172 England KT16 9RG Fax : +44 932 87 3273 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Drew Burton mentioned using WWW and Ingres. We are also trying to develop such an application for use in managing oceanographic data, and I would be interested in finding out what others are doing along these lines. Thanks Katherine A. Bouton ([email protected]) Data Information Unit College of Marine Studies University of Delaware
I am interested in talking with anyone who has written applications that provide WWW access to a relational database. We are about to embark on building a Project Oriented Information System (POIS) that will provide WWW Access to an Ingres Relational database and any project related files that a researcher might have. The basic idea is to send queries to Ingres using Mosaic, then convert the results to HTML (not just plain text) and use the results to access additional information. We would also like to be able to determine the suitability of Mosaic for updating/adding/deleting information in the Ingres database. In particular, we would like to know how Mosaic compares to a product like windows 4GL in terms of how long it takes to build the basic interface forms, etc. Tim -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim Fowlow (MDA R&D Computing Support) Canada Centre for Remote Sensing Tel: (613) 947-1394 588 Booth Street Fax: (613) 947-1383 Ottawa, ON., CANADA e-mail: [email protected] K1A 0Y7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
I am particularly interested in the Census database because it uses InterBase, one of our products. Can you put me in touch with the persons who set this up? Robert Statsinger <[email protected]>
I'd be very interested in a link to SYBASE. Is there any in progress? There is already a Sybperl available. Margaret =========================================================================== | | | Margaret Stoesser * SGI WorkStations | | (415)390-2427 * | | [email protected] * ...Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. | | | ===========================================================================
We are starting work on a generic database browser that will work with the World Wide Web. At this point we are looking at what has been that we can build on. We have a generic database browser that works on a local database and are attempting to broaden it. Ken Flagg [email protected]
we have
a great interest in Remote Database Access. We are planning
to interface Mosaic to ANY relational database using the
RDA protocol (ISO 9579). We would like to talk to all interested
parties to gain insight/knowlege of the problems and solutions.
Please contact me at:
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Genera lets you provide Web access to the contents of Sybase databases without writing a line of code. Just describe how you want your data objects to appear using the easy-to-use Genera schema notation, and Genera will automatically extract objects from your database and format them into elegant HTML.
Genera supports URLs to database objects, as well as powerful query forms that provide the power of relational queries with the simplicity of fill-in-the-blanks: no SQL needed! Genera is also useful for providing full-text search of Sybase databases via Web/WAIS and Gopher/WAIS hookups.
Genera so far has been compiled only under UNIX SunOS 4.1.x on Sparcs; other platforms may require tweaking...