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[What is GNU SQL Server] [Documentation] [What's new] [How to get GNU SQL Server] [Contacts] [Developers corner] [Related links]

What is GNU SQL Server 

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SQL Server is a free portable multiuser relatational database management system. It supports the full SQL89 dialect and has some extensions from SQL92. It provides multiuser access and transaction isolation based on predicative locks. The working OS: UNIX. The working language: C . It also uses RPC, shared memory and message queues.

The development of the server was supported by  ISPRAS , RFBR and FSF (www.gnu.org).

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What's new

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Sep 28, 1998:: 0.7b6.0 issued.

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Documentation

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Preliminary Description

Installation Guide

a tiny guide on DB engine internals (english is ugly - we have not have a time to fix it yet)

Also see (in RUSSIAN):

"SQL-server language subsystem " -Ph.D Thesis - 1996 (MSword-russian/win)
"Development of database engine" -Ph.D Thesis - 1992 (tex-russian/alt)

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How to get GNU SQL Server

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You can get the latest released version at the FSF FTP site or any of its mirrors. The latest patches and tested versions of the server can be found here or at the internal FSF FTP site

Releases

N/A

Beta Versions

0.7b6 (28 Sept 98 ) - a huge amount of bug fixes and background modifications for ipc speedup.

0.7b5 (28 Apr 97 - 12 Jun 97) - almost the same as 0.7b4 but much more carefully tested.

0.7b4 (06 Apr 97) - a lot of configuration bugs fixed. Made initial support for knr compilers and 64 bit computers. Minor bugs fixed in DB constraints checking, recovery procedure and table join.

0.7b3 (19 Feb 97) - first public release. Contains most of declared functionality with some lack of performance, administration utilities and documentation.

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Contacts

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Questions and subscribtion for bug reports

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Developers corner

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Modification plan

• Buffer IPC optimization
• DBA utilities
• Authentification services.
• WWW & Java services

Persons

 

Michael Kimelman	-  project coordinator (and language subsystem maintainer)

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Related links 

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PostgreSQL   - look also at University Ingres and Mariposa at Berkeley
MySQL           - free till you don't want to sell it
Thor                 - research DBMS project at MIT

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