Re: SQL question

Path: emory!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cleveland.Freenet.Edu!au468 From: au468@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gregory C. Sheppard) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Message-ID: <1991Sep18.144348.15885@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Date: 18 Sep 91 14:43:48 GMT References: <1991Sep17.230325.10095@jpradley.jpr.com> Sender: news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu Reply-To: au468@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gregory C. Sheppard) Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) Nntp-Posting-Host: cwns10.ins.cwru.edu In a previous article, jlh@jpradley.jpr.com (Jeff Henslin) says: >I am working on a porject that requires a database of some sort. The >ISAM product from Informix is already in-house, but I find it very >tedious and am looking for a way to avoid some of the pain of >developing the database. For this reason I am looking at purchasing other >Informix modules - SE and ESQL/C, to make integration with my C application >more agreeable. I would like to know if (with these few details) if anyone >might have an opinion on this. > > >Jeff Henslin >jlh@jpr.com > As far as ESQL/C goes, we have it and like it very much as an embedded C utility. We just finished a project which takes an incoming mmdf mail message, extracts the data we're looking for and then, with ESQL/C "inserts" the data into an Informix database file. It was a lot easier and "programmer" friendly than trying to tthe same thing with C-ISAM.