[ALL] let's think about Query Language for 2.0

[Peter De Berdt]

>Believe I have look on it.
>
>Richard, in fact I have visit ACI in Paris in Oct 1998.
>I have demonstrate them first prototype of Valentina.
>We have talk with Laurent about 4D, Valentina, little about algorithms.
>He is very nice man and talented developer.
>
>I did believe that the most correct way if some big DBMS like FileMaker or
>4D will integrate new power of Valentina. I perfectly realize that repeating
>of GUI part of FM or 4D is too hard task. And I am not fun of GUI
>development.

It would be great seeing Valentina's engine run under FM's hood, our 
clients would be very happy if searching 10.000 records wouldn't 
bring up a progress dialog.


>On some reasons we have not get agreement,
>so Valentina have go by its own way.
>As say Russian verb "whatever happens, happens to better"  :-)

Let's hope for the best then :)


>  > When RB could do what 4D can with their database, together with 
>the power of
>>  Valentina we would have the killer environment we are waiting for.
>
>As for me, the greatest lack in RB IDE to beat 4D is absent of
>Report Generator.


dbReports does a good job at it, but true, it's not as userfriendly 
as 4D's. You can also use it to put together a report layout and then 
use it within REALbasic to print reports based on your queries (and 
yes, it does Valentina!)

>
>>  Great that you are open to these ideas!
>
>So can you remind us syntax of 4D?
>

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Best regards,

Peter De Berdt
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