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From: amzi@world.std.com (Amzi!)
Subject: Re: ESs interacting with MS Access (or other DBs)?
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Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 16:51:19 GMT
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Robin.Allenson@london.sbi.com (Robin Allenson) writes:

>Hello all

>of ESs, and do some work. I'll be looking at using the ES to massage
>data in a number of MS Access tables, ideally using Access basic to fire
>off DLL functions that control the ES, which in turn pass back info, or
>act directly on the Db.

>3. has anyone done similar projects (even in the broadest sense of the
>word)?

We're currently working on a pricing application that applies pricing 
rules based on data in an Access database.  It will use a rule-based 
shell written in Amzi! Prolog using ODBC to access Access.

We also have an embedded Prolog rule-base that is used to parse mailing 
lists into database fields for storage in an Access database.  The 
main program loop is written in Access Basic, which calls a Prolog module 
to parse a block of text, which is a free form mailing label, into 
database fields, such as country, postal code, name, city, etc.  The 
returned fields are then stored in the Access database.

Contact us for more information on Amzi! Prolog or either of these 
applications.

Dennis Merritt
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