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From: dafuller@sequent.UUCP (David Fuller)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Database and SQL
Keywords: database SQL server
Message-ID: <50563@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 91 05:49:49 GMT
References: <956@trac2000.ueci.com>
Reply-To: dafuller@sequent.UUCP (David Fuller)
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc
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In article <956@trac2000.ueci.com> gls@trac2000.ueci.com (Gary Smith) writes:
>
>I am going to develop a program and I am going to need some type of database
>engine to drive it.  It will be made on DOS running windows.  I had thought of
>using Informix/SQL (ESQL/C).  I would like to stick to a SQL language, but I
>am open to suggestions.

Have you decided on the transactions the front end will require?

If this is going to work single user on a single machine with no care about
the coherency of a networked DBMS then there are a wealth of neat DBMS
to play with.  If you need to exist in a network communicating with many
others for whom DBMS coherency, accessability, and updateability is
paramount then...

What's this thing supposed to look like?

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