Subject: PQ Edit general purpose database editor application and RDBAL module
From: "Brian H Dunford-Shore" <[email-masked]>
Date: 15 May 1998 22:26:08 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.modules

This is to announce the availability of the PQ Edit perl application and the
RDBAL modules.

They have been uploaded to CPAN's incoming directory or they are available
for immediate download at:
http://www.ibc.wustl.edu/download/perl.  Documentation and screen snapshots
of PQ Edit are also available there.

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PQEdit is meant to make the (re)writing of data entry forms
for relational databases unnecessary most of the time.

PQEdit is a perl cgi script which provides general purpose
Web-based database table editing for relational database tables
using automatic CGI forms.  PQEdit is based on the RDBAL
Relational Database Abstraction Layer Schema Object.

Currently it supports Transact-SQL (Sybase and MS SQL) and
Oracle relational database servers via SybaseDBlib, ODBC, or
DBI/DBD drivers.

This has been tested, at least minimally, on the Apache web
server under Solaris and MS WinNT and on MS IIS 3.0 under
MS WinNT.

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RDBAL is an abstraction layer for relational (SQL) databases
allowing for middleware independent SQL execution and for
database Schema (catalog) information.  RDBAL tries to 'hide'
details of implementation for scripts so that they need no
changes to run on, for example, *nix or NT and Sybase/MS SQL
server or Oracle.

Currently it supports Transact-SQL and Oracle relational
database servers via SybaseDBlib, ODBC, or DBI/DBD drivers.
The Oracle and DBI/DBD functionality is minimally tested and
should be considered 'beta'.

Description of modules:
RDBAL         Rdpo Relational DataBase Abstraction Layer
BHDS
RDBAL::
::Schema      Rdpo Relational Database Schema object
BHDS
::Layer::
::ApacheSybaseDBlib Rdpo Apache::Sybase::DBlib abstraction layer BHDS
::SybaseDBlib       Rdpo Apache::Sybase::DBlib abstraction layer        BHDS
::ODBC                  Rdpo Win32::ODBC abstraction layer
BHDS
::DBI                       Bdpo DBI/DBD abstraction layer
BHDS

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