[Info-vax] Oracle on VMS

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-11-19 kl. 00:30, skrev Bill Gunshannon:
> On 11/18/16 12:16 PM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>> Den 2016-11-18 kl. 17:02, skrev Bill Gunshannon:
>>>
>>> Maybe I have been out of touch long enough to miss the
>>> change, but wasn't Oracle ordered by the courts to continue
>>> support for VMS?  I was looking at the pre-compilers for
>>> embedded SQL and the absence of any for VMS is kinda obvious.
>>> Was there never pre-compilers for VMS or have they dropped
>>> all support at this point in time?  Of course, a pre-compiller
>>> implies a linkable library for the supported languages. I assume
>>> these don't exist either.  Or did I miss something subtle?
>>>
>>> bill
>>
>> Are you talkning about "Oracle Oracle" or "Oracle Rdb"?
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> Oracle Oracle
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> I have never used Rdb.

It's nice and more integrated with the VMS environment
then Oracle "Classic".

> Were there pre-compilers for embedded SQL
> for things like COBOL for Rdb?

Of course. Ada, C, COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal, and PL/I *are* supported.
Why do you ask in past tense?

For a more language independant mode, you can also compile plain SQL
modules (source files) using the Modular Language SQL compiler. That
produces standard VMS OBJ object files that can be linked just as
usual with any language on VMS that follows the VMS calling standard.

The docs are here:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/rdb/documentation/index.html

And the embedded SQL info is in Volume 1 of the SQL ref manual.
Updated as late as sept-2016, so it is up to date...






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> bill
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