Re: [MonetDB-users] Perl and MonetDB Xquery

Steffen Goeldner wrote:

Well, I'm sure a DBI/XQuery 'marriage' is possible too. (After all, there flows some text between client and server - it's not rocket science.) Further, I predict only minor changes are necessary. However, DBI is somewhat SQL biased (i.e. table-oriented) - thus I doubt that we'll celebrate a golden wedding.

I was just trying to point out that XQuery already can give you SQL-ish output, so the only thing you have to do is make sure you don't send the wrong (auto) commands, such as auto-commit, and all of your tabular/resultset based routines should be happy. I mapped XQuery's Results on SQL's ResultSets, and XQuery's Resources on SQL's Rows.