Where can I download the source code of MaxDB (even an older version)?

[Former Member]

Just want to learn some modules of MaxDB. But now I failed to find where to download it.

Is there any old archive for the older version of MaxDB source code for download?

Thanks in advance.

[lbreddemann]

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> Just want to learn some modules of MaxDB.

Would you mind to tell us, what exactly you want to learn?

Maybe (better 'likely') you'll learn way more by checking the available documentation/training resources at

http://maxdb.sap.com/training

The source code is not really something to 'learn MaxDB' from.

regards,

Lars

[Former Member]

"learn" from the document is quite different from "learn" from the source code.

From the document, you can know there is some feature and how to use.

But from the code, you perhaps know how to implement a special feature. That's what I want to know.

Thanks. If there is no source code for download. I just try some other opensource DBMS.

[markus_doehr2]

At times when the sources were available I tried to build it on a "new" platform (Solaris x86 32bit) and I can tell you: it's NOTHING that is obvious. Building OpenOffice or Mozilla may appear like an easy task. It took me months to get there and to be able to just build the 'build tools'.

On top, many of the sources are (historically) written in a Pascal dialect and are transferred to C with an own precompiler so there are three languages used (C, C++ and Pascal) - so it's a pretty hard (next to impossible) job to learn some algorithms from those sources.

See also here:

http://cjcollier.livejournal.com/177628.html

http://home.snafu.de/~dittmar/sapdbdev/

and just to get an idea of the modules and their structure:

http://home.snafu.de/~dittmar/sapdbdev/sapdbModules.txt

Markus

[Former Member]

Thanks. Markus Doehr.

I think i've enough information about it.