[p4] Accessing the Perforce database from *nix

[Tony Sweeney]

Looney, James B wrote:
> I recently discovered that we could access Perforce's database from
> Windows with ODBC, and wanted to similarly access the database (for some
> datamining to improve our scripts' performance) on a *nix platform.
> However, I'm a little confused on how to do so in *nix-land.
>
> Our scripts are written in Python, and are run on SunSolaris, SGI's IRIX
> and HP-UX.  So, from those systems, how would I setup the connection?
> Or, what areas/topics are recommended to read up on to figure it out?
>
> As a side question, I was wondering what kind of database it is, whether
> they use SQL, MySQL, etc?
>   
Back in the day they used Berkeley DB 1.85 (allegedly), with some 
internal bug fixes.  However my spies inform me that they now have a 
home grown DB engine.  ODBC is a Microsoft technology; there are 
commercial UNIX implementations.

Tony.
> -JB
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