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Mini SQL (mSQL) is a relational database management system from Hughes Technologies.

History

The database to feature a SQL interface but sported a flat file back end rather than a true relational file set. Very popular in the 90's as a web back end but gave way to MySQL and SQLite due to licensing issues. The original author David Hughes still supports the product commercially and provides occasional updates, but no one has bothered to port the more recent versions as better alternatives are available.

Versions

1998-09-14: mSQL 2.0.4.1 build 4 [1]
1999-01-19: mSQL 2.0.6
1999-03-17: mSQL 2.0.8
1999-04-17: mSQL 2.0.9
1999-05-25: mSQL 2.0.10
1999-08-24: mSQL 2.0.11

Prerequisites:

EMX runtime

2017-06-30: 4.1 - More operating systems were supported as ports but not by the original author directly, so ports of the most recent versions have dried up but it may be possible to compile the current codebase to other systems without much fuss.

Interfaces

REXX: Rexx/SQL 2.4 [2]
OBDC: mSQL odbc driver for Sibyl [3]
JDBC: Imaginary JDBC Driver [4]

License

Commercial - Is open source but released as copyrighted software with a no commercial usage clause.

Publications

Brian Jepson; David J. Hughes: Official Guide to Mini SQL 2.0 - Wiley 1998, ISBN 0-471-24535-6

Links

Hughes Technologies homepage
REXX/SQL 2.4 mSQL version
dbf2msql 2.0 - An utility to convert .dbf files to mSQL tables and back.
BdBadmin 1.0 - CGI interface to allow mSQL administration via the web.
Java mSQL JDBC driver

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-The first open source database to feature an [[SQL]] interface but sported a flat file back end rather than a true relational file set, actually called '''Mini SQL''' but not known as anything but "mSQL" in common usage. Very popular in the 90's as a web back end but gave way to [[MySQL]] and [[SQLite]] due to licensing issues and is now primarily of historical interest. The original author still supports the product commercially and provides occasional updates, but no one has bothered to port the more recent versions as better alternatives are available, one of the issues being that the author seldom or never folded changes from third party authors into the codebase so that porters constantly had to re-do their work.
+'''Mini SQL''' (mSQL) is a relational database management system from Hughes Technologies.
+==History==
+The database to feature a [[SQL]] interface but sported a flat file back end rather than a true relational file set. Very popular in the 90's as a web back end but gave way to [[MySQL]] and [[SQLite]] due to licensing issues. The original author David Hughes still supports the product commercially and provides occasional updates, but no one has bothered to port the more recent versions as better alternatives are available.
 ==Versions==
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 * [[EMX]] runtime
-*Current version: 4.0 - More operating systems were supported as ports but not by the original author directly, so ports of the most recent versions have dried up but it may be possible to compile the current codebase to other systems without much fuss.
+*2017-06-30: 4.1 - More operating systems were supported as ports but not by the original author directly, so ports of the most recent versions have dried up but it may be possible to compile the current codebase to other systems without much fuss.
 ==Interfaces==
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 ==License==
 * Commercial - Is open source but released as copyrighted software with a [[no commercial usage clause]].
+==Publications==
+* Brian Jepson; David J. Hughes: ''Official Guide to Mini SQL 2.0'' - Wiley 1998, ISBN 0-471-24535-6
 ==Links==
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 * [ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/java/apps/database/msql-jdbc-2b.zip Java mSQL JDBC driver]
-==Author==
+[[Category:DBMS]][[Category:Software written in C]]
-*Hughes Technologies, David Hughes
-[[Category:SQL]][[Category:Databases]][[Category:Software written in C]][[Category:Open Source Software]]