[DGD] DGD & MySQL

[Kurt Nordstrom]

Embedding SQLite might be another viable alternative to MySQL too.

http://www.sqlite.org/

As they claim, self-contained, serverless and config-free.

-Kurt

> On 9/18/08 7:23 AM, Per Newberg wrote:
>> Greetings all!
>>
>> This is the first time I write here.. so hi! :-)
>>
>> My question is regarding DGD & SQL...
>>
>> Have anyone tried doing anything like this? Making [My]SQL queries
>> from within DGD & LPC code?
>
> Unless you're really hungry to drop hundreds of hours of work into this,
> my recommendation would be to design a new minimal application-specific
> protocol that does precisely what you want and nothing else and contains
> no SQL or table names, just your own logical operations and references.
>
> You write a DGD client for the protocol and you write a small Java
> server for it. The Java server takes requests from DGD (localhost
> connection) and translates them into SQL through JDBC, and mutates the
> results for DGD.
>
> This way you get a storage-agnostic interface (maybe you'd want to
> switch to Berkeley DB at some point, for example) and you don't have to
> deal with actual database connectors.
>
> Zell
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