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From: ghm@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (geoffrey miller)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Is an RDBMS a real world solution to data processing?
Keywords: RDBMS, Real World, Pick
Message-ID: <805@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au>
Date: 12 Dec 89 01:51:09 GMT
References: <629320615.tom@litle.COM>
Reply-To: ghm@ccadfa.adfa.oz (Geoff Miller)
Organization: Computer Centre, Australian Defence Force Academy
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In article <629320615.tom@litle.COM> tom@litle.COM (Tom Hampton) writes:
>We are operating under the assumption that moving from a 
>proprietary, index file based system to an RDMMS offers us a lot in terms
>of functionality.  Presumably, members of this group agree.

Not necessarily.  At the risk of being hung for heresy, you can achieve
many of the benefits of a relational data model without necessarily going
to one of the so-called RDBMS packages.  For example, there is a large and
generally happy community using Pick and its variants, and while Pick is
not an RDBMS in the sense of implementing the Commandments of Codd, it can 
be used very satisfactorily to implement data structures derived from a
"relational" model.

BTW, although I haven't tried implementing an object-oriented data model in
a Pick environment yet, I can see no reason why it should not work well.

Geoff Miller