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From: gupta@cullsj.UUCP (Yogesh Gupta)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Referential Integrity in commercial DBMS's?
Summary: CA-DB as well.
Message-ID: <689@cullsj.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 89 21:57:49 GMT
References: <5030@merlin.usc.edu> <1989Sep12.224332.585@telotech.uucp>
Organization: Cullinet Software, San Jose, CA
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In article <1989Sep12.224332.585@telotech.uucp>, bsa@telotech.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
< In article <5030@merlin.usc.edu>, ajayshah@castor (Ajay Shah) writes:
< +---------------
< | Are there non-flatfile DBMS' on the PS/PS2 platform which guarantee
< | referential integrity on the scale that Unify does (i believe Unify
< | has given up in the PC market after version 3.2).
< +---------------
< 
< [...]
< As for your question: in older RDBMSes, the only one that provided real
< relational integrity was Sybase.
< [...]
< ++Brandon
< -- 

I do not know how you define "older RDBMSes", but CA-DB (formerly known as
IDMS/SQL as well as Enterprise:DB from Cullinet) has supported referential
integrity since its *first*release*.

CA-DB is in release 1.4 on the VAX and is about to be released in Beta on
the PC.
-- 
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