Tiny [SQL] for [metakit] databases. 

This is an preliminary release! Author: Dr. [Detlef Groth], MPIMG Berlin

Current homepage is at:
http://goblet.molgen.mpg.de/tsql4mk/

From the readme:

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'''README'''

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'''DESCRIPTION'''

tsql4mk is an experimental library and a console application for executing sql-statements against Metakit databases. It implements a subset of SQL92.
tsql4mk uses [Jean-Claude Wippler]'s [Oomk] and [William Duquette]'s "[snit]" (Snit Is Not Incrtcl), version 0.97. The api is modelled after R. Hipps great [SQLite] http://www.sqlite.org.
This manuals were partially copied and adjusted for tsql4mk from the language reference of SQLite http://www.sqlite.org. Thanks fro [D. Richard Hipp] for this great piece of software.

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'''LIMITS'''

The main limits of tsql4mk against SQLite are:
   * much lower speed, although not measured yet (layer on a layer ...)
   * only a small subset of the sql-language is implemented
   * limited join capabilites
   * no NULL is known  

The advantages are:

   * no compilation required if you use the ''[tclkit]'' [http://www.equi4.com/] runtime
   * console, library and documentation are in one file -> easy installation and deployment
   * yan can start with tsql4mk and later on switch to [SQLite]

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'''USAGE'''

  Examples:
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 |   Usage: tsql4mk.kit ?-doc? ?-example? ?-run? ?-help?

 |     -doc            Show a bit of documentation
 |     -example        Display the example script
 |     -run            Run the example script
 |     -html           Show the html documentation



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'''LIBRARY'''

To use tsql4mk, either unwrap tsql4mk.kit (using [sdx]) and source "tsql4mk.tcl", or if you use a new Tclkit with Metakit 2.4.9: simply source this starkit.

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'''CONSOLE APPLICATION'''

tsql4mk.kit can be also as standalone console application in several ways:

 |   Usage: tsql4mk.kit <filename> <SQL STATEMENT>

or via [pipe]s:

 |   echo <SQL STATEMENT> | tsql4mk.kit <filename>

Pipes can be used to execute several sql-statements at ones from a file and pipe this into the tsql4mk.kit application.

 |   cat <sqlfile> | tsql4mk.kit <filename>

This feature can be also used to convert a sqlite database into a metakit database:

 |   echo .dump | sqlite test.sqlite | tsql4mk.kit <filename>

The reverse way metakit -> sqlite is currently not yet implemented.

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'''Documentation'''

See http://goblet.molgen.mpg.de/tsql4mk/index.html

   
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'''Installation/Download'''


If you don't have already download tclkit suitable for your platform from ''www.equi4.com'' [http://www.equi4.com/pub/tk/downloads.html]. Put it in your path. Download tsql4mk.kit from ''here'' [http://goblet.molgen.mpg.de/tsql4mk/tsql4mk.kit]. Done!

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