This software is an attempt to implement a sort unified
data access for gnome. Currently it supports the usage of
RDBMS with an ODBC client library, as well as natives drivers
for PostgreSQL, MySQL and Oracle

For this purpose, a CORBA interface is provided for the communication
between the different pieces that compound the system.

How to use it
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Configuration files are copied to the place they should go, but sometimes
this may not work (due to an installation in a non-standard place), so it's
better to know where each piece must go.

Copy the gnome_db.gnorba to your GNORBA configuration directory (usually
/etc/CORBA/servers in RedHat 6.0, or /usr/etc/CORBA/servers in other
Linux distributions). You can check this by executing:

	gnome-config --sysconfdir

Then start the front-end application (gda-fe) and go to 
Options->Data Sources
and create a new data source for your database (Look at the gdalib.sample
file included in the distribution to see how you must fill each field).

Of course, before trying to connect to a database, you must have it up and
running. For this, have a look at your RDBMS documentation to see how to
do it.

Running
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There are some applications you can use in GNOME-DB:

* gda-fe -> front-end application. Use it to send SQL requests to your database
* gda-mgr -> global configuration utility. It will help you managing system-wide
  configuration
* gda-builder -> IDE for developing database-oriented applications
* gda-rolodex -> sample rolodex application
