[PD-dev] Project Outline for SQL External

[Mike McGonagle]

OOPS, I sent this a little prematurely... Please ignore until I can
actually finish what I was trying say...

Thanks...


Mike McGonagle

On 6/15/07, Mike McGonagle <mjmogo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Over the past month and a half, I have been dealing with MySQL and
> working with SQL. I was wondering if anyone had thought about making
> an external for PD to access a database via SQL, and it appears that
> there have been a couple of attempts, but nothing that seems to have
> come to fruition.
>
> The one project that I have got the source (sqlsingle) for was to
> connect up to a Postgres database, and I suspect that part of the
> complexity in writing this external might have stemmed from dealing
> with the Connectivity level and the SQL level all within the same
> object. One of the things that I have been considering is to write two
> different externals, one to handle the connectivity (probably using
> ODBC, instead of connecting directly to a specific database), and
> another that would be used to post SQL to the database.
>


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