Re: [PHP-DEV] SAP DB
Lukas Smith wrote: Yes, As I didn't know that SAPDB = AdabasD I was unaware... As far as I know is is pretty much AdabasD but ist not exactly AdabasD either. Its basically a fork from all I know. that's why i wrote from a programmers point of view SAP has bought the right to use the AdabasD Source Code from SAG a while ago (SAG AdabasD is one of the few SQL Databases you can run SAP R/3 on, and it was the first of the 'big players' databases to be ported to Linux, way ahead of Oracle and Informix). The idea behind the whole SAP DB stuff seems to be to have an alternative to Oracle around, jsut in case ... ;) SAP DB and AdabasD are now seperate products and the code bases have forked, but SAP and SAG still work together so it is very hard to distinguish the two products from one another. They are far more similar than eg. the Sybase and Microsoft servers have been in the 90ies AFAIK the original codebase for SAP DB was AdabasD 6.x, while current AdabasD version is 11.x, but the differences from 6.x to 11.x are not as big as the version numbers suggest, and a lot of stuff added to AdabasD after 6.x should have been available to SAP developers, too -- Hartmut Holzgraefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.six.de +49-711-99091-77 Wir stellen für Sie aus auf der CeBIT 2002 und freuen uns in Halle 6 auf Ihren Besuch am Stand H 18 -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP-DEV] SAP DB
Yes, back when SAP opensourced SAP DB there was a lot of speculation was to why they did it. Actuallywe installed it on our test server, but never actually tested it. It seems very feature complete and well documented. Using ODBC sucks (especially with the problems it creates with other RDBMSs), so a native driver would be nice. Anyways I remember that they announced that they would continue development and would improve the SAP DB OS site. I haven't really checked if they followed through with their promise. Best regards, Lukas Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ DybNet Internet Solutions GbR Alt Moabit 89 10559 Berlin Germany Tel. : +49 30 83 22 50 00 Fax : +49 30 83 22 50 07 www.dybnet.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ -Original Message- From: alex black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 4:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DEV] SAP DB hi all, One of the binarycloud developers just told me to have a look at the SAP OS database, SAPDB. I'm going to test it tomorrow to see if it actually does what it claims, but this _looks_ like serious OS competition to Oracle, and if it is I would very much like to use it for my next project. So, question: Has anyone used SAPDB with PHP? If so, experiences? And if not, are there plans for drivers? I looked in the manual and I didn't see any mention of SAPDB. Oh, and I just found a mention of PHP on the SAPDB site. Looks like the connection is over ODBC, which I really _really_ dislike... are there plans for anything native? like a sapdb_connect :)? In any case I think this database has a _HUGE_ amount of potential and PHP would benefit if access to SAPDB was possible. please e-mail me directly as I am not subscribed to the NGs: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks, _alex -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DEV] SAP DB
alex black wrote: hi all, One of the binarycloud developers just told me to have a look at the SAP OS database, SAPDB. SAP DB is just another name for AdabasD from a programmers point of view- I'm going to test it tomorrow to see if it actually does what it claims, but this _looks_ like serious OS competition to Oracle, and if it is I would very much like to use it for my next project. So, question: Has anyone used SAPDB with PHP? If so, experiences? And if not, are there plans for drivers? I looked in the manual and I didn't see any mention of SAPDB. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.odbc.php Oh, and I just found a mention of PHP on the SAPDB site. Looks like the connection is over ODBC, which I really _really_ dislike... are there plans for anything native? like a sapdb_connect :)? from the link mentinoned above: In addition to normal ODBC support, the Unified ODBC functions in PHP allow you to access several databases that have borrowed the semantics of the ODBC API to implement their own API. Instead of maintaining multiple database drivers that were all nearly identical, these drivers have been unified into a single set of ODBC functions. so the call interface to AdabasD/SapDB looks like ODBC, but you have direct access to the database using PHP, you don't have to deal with ODBC driver management and all the stuff if you don't want you In any case I think this database has a _HUGE_ amount of potential and PHP would benefit if access to SAPDB was possible. as said above: it is all there ... just the documentation could need a little update ... -- Hartmut Holzgraefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.six.de +49-711-99091-77 Wir stellen für Sie aus auf der CeBIT 2002 und freuen uns in Halle 6 auf Ihren Besuch am Stand H 18 -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP-DEV] SAP DB
Yes, As I didn't know that SAPDB = AdabasD I was unaware... As far as I know is is pretty much AdabasD but ist not exactly AdabasD either. Its basically a fork from all I know. The documentation seemed fairly complete when I checked a while back. The interface to it was just not very good though. Best regards, Lukas Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ DybNet Internet Solutions GbR Alt Moabit 89 10559 Berlin Germany Tel. : +49 30 83 22 50 00 Fax : +49 30 83 22 50 07 www.dybnet.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DEV] SAP DB
On Monday, 25. February 2002 21:19, Lukas Smith wrote: Yes, As I didn't know that SAPDB = AdabasD I was unaware... As far as I know is is pretty much AdabasD but ist not exactly AdabasD either. Its basically a fork from all I know. Yes, its a fork from version 6.1 Georg -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DEV] SAP DB
SAP DB is just another name for AdabasD from a programmers point of view- Ah, cool. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.odbc.php Well, yes. In addition to normal ODBC support, the Unified ODBC functions in PHP allow you to access several databases that have borrowed the semantics of the ODBC API to implement their own API. Instead of maintaining multiple database drivers that were all nearly identical, these drivers have been unified into a single set of ODBC functions. so the call interface to AdabasD/SapDB looks like ODBC, but you have direct access to the database using PHP, you don't have to deal with ODBC driver management and all the stuff if you don't want you AHA! Fantastic! as said above: it is all there ... just the documentation could need a little update ... Yes, As I didn't know that SAPDB = AdabasD I was unaware... In any case you have made my day, thank you :) All on bc-dev... hehehehe, + excellent +. and Mike, I'm going to use this. (as I suspect you will as well) _alex -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
