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From: rog@ingres.com (Roger Taranto)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Using a DBMS for administration
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.063022.13017@ingres.Ingres.COM>
Date: 2 Apr 91 06:30:22 GMT
Reply-To: rog@Ingres.COM (Roger Taranto)
Organization: ASK Computer Systems, INGRES Product Division
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Out of curiosity, has anyone looked into using a DBMS as a
replacement for the history and active files?  Expiration
would be trivial -- just send the database a query specifying
what you want expired and when, it should be able to give you
back a list of filenames to delete.  Also, things like author,
references, etc could be stored with each history entry.

If someone was really ambitious, they could even work on store
entire articles in a database.

I would use INGRES if I were to do such a thing, but then I
have an obvious bias.  Has anyone worked on any of this?

-Roger
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