Minirel GUI Frontend and Utility Operations
Daniel Wong dmw@cs.wisc.edu
General Description of goals & responsibilities
The goal of the project is to build a Minirel GUI Frontend system.
Users will have the option to query by examples (QBE) or manually
enter SEQUEL statements. Utility operations will be supported as well.
There will be an interface layer between Minirel and the GUI system.
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Meeting Summaries
- 3/23 Proposal revised. A SQL frontend is to be built for Minirel.
- 3/30 Possible support from the DB engine to parse the output data
- 4/06 More revisions on GUI, a display function is to be coded to
iteratively get the tuples for the GUI to display, more details on DDL
implementation
- 4/13 Discussion on coding db utilities, basically interface of the
catalog will be provided by system architecture group, and index creation
will be provided by index group by way of constructors
- 4/20 Finialization of catalog interface, update utilities are low
priority, index type to be supported are hash and Btree, attribute
type supported are int, float, string, and NULL. Print and browse
utilities are to be supported by frontend group.
- 4/27 Discussion of catalog, parser, and interpreter interface. Further
discussion of utilities structure. A super catalog class to hide the
details of catalog is to be constructed. GUI demonstration with the
integration of all parts are due 15th of May.
- 5/4 DIscussion on interp. interface, and catalog interface. Additional
utilities include insert and delete tuples.
Other groups that are relevant to our work
- System Architecture Group
- Parser and interpreter
- Buffer Manager
- Log Manager
- OS Group
- Heap File Group
More to come