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From: martin@adpplz.UUCP (Martin Golding)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Relational Databases (and why they don't exist)
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Date: 12 Jun 91 21:43:38 GMT
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>When we implemented
>this we created a pair of associated multivalued fields in the file/part
>record.                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What particular database (if any, of course) are you using? I immediately
thought "aha, one of those aussie closet P*CK users", but then you said:

>In my example it would be harder (but not impossible) to identify
>all the files which have passed through the hands of a specific
>individual, but we seldom (so far, never) need to do this.

which would be easy on a P*CK system.

I ask because we business types often need to trade off elegance for
performance, and one of the groups here is evaluating possible databases.


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