![]() ![]() But that’s about to change: with FileMaker Pro 9, if you’ve got a SQL data source handy that was set up by somebody else, you can now connect to that data source and make full use of it without knowing a thing about SQL. I know only a handful of advanced FileMaker developers that actually made use of it. But this feature was hard to use, didn’t work very well, and in any case was more like data exchange than data access. ![]() Technically, it has long been possible for a FileMaker database to query a SQL data source, then import a copy of the resulting data set to play with. In the past, FileMaker users were by and large shut out of these important data collections, because FileMaker uses its own proprietary (that is, non-standard) database engine. SQL without tears SQL is the standard used to communicate with the big databases found everywhere: in businesses, hospitals, universities, government, on the Web-almost anywhere that a lot of data must be accessed by a lot of people. ![]()
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