[Ur] [Bulk] Seeking Ur/Web case studies

[David Snider]

Adam Chlipala wrote:
> David Snider wrote:
>> I have a .NET application that I can convert as well as every hour I 
>> spent
>> developing it written down.
>>
>> The data is in a MSSQL database though. Is there any way to tap into 
>> that
>> directly or will I have to migrate to MySQL?
>>   
>
> I haven't implemented anything that would facilitate interfacing with 
> MSSQL, and I'm not going to spend any time supporting it in the near 
> future.  The database backend support is pretty well modularized in 
> the compiler, so anyone who understands the code base could add a new 
> backend fairly easily.
>
> (Obviously you can use the current support without migrating to MySQL, 
> because you could migrate to Postgres or SQLite instead. ;])
>
> Also keep in mind that Ur/Web is not implemented to work with the 
> model where you create a database and then interface with it.  Ur/Web 
> wants to control all database tables, and the database is really just 
> a backing store whose schema is generated from the Ur/Web 
> application's code.
What are you expecting people with legacy data to do? This sounds like a 
deal breaker for most any real world web application.
>
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