From help-request at octave dot org Mon May 23 12:35:08 2005
Subject: RE: Octave - MySQL Interface
From: "Chris Brundick" <cbrundick at bbn dot com>
To: "Stefan van der Walt" <stefan at sun dot ac dot za>
Cc: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>, <help@octave.org>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 13:32:42 -0400

Thanks for the lead Stefan.  I think this will be very helpful.

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan van der Walt [mailto:stefan at strongbad dot dsp dot sun dot ac dot za]On
> Behalf Of Stefan van der Walt
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 8:00 AM
> To: Chris Brundick
> Cc: John W. Eaton; help at octave dot org
> Subject: Re: Octave - MySQL Interface
>
>
> Take a look at libgql:
>
>  The CLI (call level interface) library GQL provides an
>  abstraction of a SQL database, which means it is provides
>  an API for all (or most) possible SQL databases. It achieves
>  this by using individual drivers for different databases.
>
>  The API of GQL is closely modelled after JDBC (Java Database
>  Connectivity).
>
> You can wrap it for Octave using the instructions at
>
>  http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?DaCodaAlFine
>
> Regards
> Stefan
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:07:59AM -0400, Chris Brundick wrote:
> > Thank you.
> >
> > The only reason I asked about Java was that I assumed that if nothing
> > existed I'd have to write something in some programming language and I'm
> > more familiar with Java/JDBC than I am with C, C++, etc.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: John W. Eaton [mailto:jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu]
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 9:52 AM
> > > To: Chris Brundick
> > > Cc: help at octave dot org
> > > Subject: Octave - MySQL Interface
> > >
> > >
> > > On 19-May-2005, Chris Brundick wrote:
> > >
> > > | I'm just looking into Octave and am wondering if anyone is
> aware of any
> > > | existing functionality that would allow me to query a MySQL
> > > database from
> > > | Octave?  If not, could anyone provide any pointers/examples to get
> > > | me started if I were to develop such a module?
> > >
> > > This is relatively old and might not work with current versions of
> > > Octave, but it could maybe be a starting point for something new:
> > >
> > >
> > > http://www.octave.org/octave-lists/archive/octave-sources.1999/msg
> > > 00054.html
> > >
> > > | Is it possible to do this using Java?
> > >
> > > How would Java help?
> > >
> > > jwe
> > >
> > >
> > >
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