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'''Data Access Language''', or simply '''DAL''', was a [[SQL]]-like language parser released by [[Apple Computer]] in 1990 to provide unified [[client/server]] access to [[database management system]]s. It was known for poor performance and high costs, something Apple did little to address over its short lifetime at Apple. TheseDAL days,was later sold off in the early 1990s. DAL enjoysis aused healthy,as highthe performancenative lifeSQL indialect of the [[PrimeBase]] SQL serversserver, as well fromas SNAPthe Innovationnow-defunct GmbHButler.

==History==

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DAL appears to have seen little use, and eventually Apple sold it to tiny Independence Technologies in 1994, during a sell-off of a number of "high-end" packages such as their [[X.400]] server and an [[Systems Network Architecture|SNA]] client. In 1995 [[BEA Systems]] bought the company, and in turn sold it to [[Uniprise]] in late 1996. During this period it was basically a dead product.

At some point, German software developer SNAP Innovation GmbH incorporated DAL into their cross platform SQL database server. Their implementation of DAL performs very well and they continue to support DAL in their products today.

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