Re: Killing views [Was: Dealing with files in Gnome]

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 13:27, Ali Akcaagac wrote:
> On Sunday 06 April 2003 03:38, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
> > > You know about the basics of networking I assume, you know that you are
> > > able to set up various servers such as telnet, sentmail, ftp, pop3 and so
> > > on, same for SQL that you can access over net. So SQL as KIOslave is
> > > quite logical for me it only fills a gap and I can easily and query my
> > > Universities database.
> >
> > No man, you're wrong.  SQL is a query language.  It's not a protocol.
> > HTTP is, on the other hand, a protocol.  And the idea of protocol IO
> > slaves is to implement *protocols* to transfer data streams in remote
> > filesystems.  You're stretching the technology?
> 
> I know what SQL is and I haven't written that it is a protocol. Please read 
> what I wrote. I only mentioned that you can set up an SQL server and have it 
> accessed through the network and that it makes indeed sense to access it that 
> way. It makes more sense to have something like sql:// rather than burn:// or 
> applications://.
> 
it might make sense, although I think it would make much more sense if
it wasn't a web page, but a list of folders for each database and files
on them representing the tables/views of each database, which, when
clicked, opened a special viewer for viewing the structure and data of
those tables/views.

I'm not sure this makes a lot of sense though, but it makes more sense
than having a web page, IMO.

cheers