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From: davef@lakesys.UUCP (Dave Fenske)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Focus
Message-ID: <890@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 89 03:14:52 GMT
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Reply-To: davef@lakesys.UUCP (Dave Fenske)
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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>FOCUS is not a relational database system and for all the reasons I
>want a relational system are the reasons I don't want FOCUS!
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Hmmmm.  I don't seem to recall any messages which suggested that FOCUS was
a relational database.  Perhaps it was line noise the original posting
encountered on its way out to the coast.

I suppose I could mention the joins which are possible in Focus.  Joins to
other databases and/or native files.  Joins hard-coded via cross-reference
keys, or joins on-the-fly.  But I won't.

I could even mention a product called Focus Vision which has been storing
and retrieving video and text.  The product has been out for over 3 years.
I guess I won't do that either.

For such a terrible non-relational product, it seems funny that so many other
vendors have gone thru lengths to incorporate features which Focus had first.

DF