From: freshd@freshmeat.net Subject: Metabase 2000.10.02 - A DBMS-independent package to access and manage databases with PHP. Date: 3 Oct 2000 08:18:17 GMT Message-id: <8rc4o9$46s$2@mail.freshmeat.net> Path: news.freshmeat.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: fm.announce.development Organization: freshmeat.net Approved: scoop@freshmeat.net (Patrick Lenz) NNTP-Posting-Host: freshmeat.net X-Trace: mail.freshmeat.net 970561097 4316 64.28.67.35 (3 Oct 2000 08:18:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@freshmeat.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Oct 2000 08:18:17 GMT Xref: news.freshmeat.net fm.announce.development:2874 application: Metabase 2000.10.02 author: Manuel Lemos license: freely distributable category: Development/Database urgency: medium homepage: http://freshmeat.net/redir/homepage/948256867/ download: http://freshmeat.net/redir/download/948256867/ description: Metabase consists of a set of classes to access and manage databases using an API that assures DBMS independence. There is a function library that interfaces with DBMS specific driver classes, a parser class that interperts a custom XML format used to describe database schemas, and a manager class that installs database schema objects (tables, indexes, sequences) using the Metabase API. The manager class is also able to upgrade a previously installed database to a new schema without affecting that data that was stored since the database was installed or was upgraded for the last time. Changes: The contributed drivers for Informix and Interbase have been added. Some bugs were fixed and the drivers for ODBC, Postgres, Oracle have been improved. Creating and dropping tables has been abstracted. Other additions include support for creating MySQL tables to work with transactions, driver conformance tests to verify correct NULL handling and text value escaping, several improvements, and minor bugfixes. The package licence has been updated. |> http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/10/03/970561367.html