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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Qt SQLite plugin
From:       "Chris January" <chris () atomice ! net>
Date:       2002-04-09 17:46:47
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> > YES!
> > I want to do some DB stuff with KDE, but currently I have been stuck
using
> > sleepycat's DB.  Haveing SQL would be a marked improvement.
> >
> > Maby in KDE addons? Or KOffice?  It would make the Serial Letter feature
of
> > KOffice useful, as I lack any other SQL plugins for Qt.
>
> Currently the QSqlQuery code is working, but I am having some trouble
> coaxing QSqlCursor (which is the more popular one ;-).
>
> OTOH, it only has some 6 hours of work in it so far ;-)
>
> One thing that MIGHT be a problem is that sqlite is typeless (everything
> is really a string but gets converted as needed) so the QSqlFieldInfo code
> is an ugly hack until I write code that can parse a CREATE TABLE sentence
> (ie, not too soon ;-)
>
> OTTH (On the third hand), it is just 300 lines of code so far ;-)
I have a database engine that I've been working on for some time that's
designed to be a reasonably light exokernel style database system. If you
manage to write a working SQL front-end then it would be interesting to see
if the two could be married somehow.

Chris


 
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