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From: onder@ISI.EDU (Bruce Onder)
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Subject: Re: Rushmore Query Optimization in FoxPro 2.0
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Date: 27 Jun 91 20:04:21 GMT
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In-reply-to: RMC100@psuvm.psu.edu's message of 27 Jun 91 15:00:48 GMT

In article <91178.110048RMC100@psuvm.psu.edu> RMC100@psuvm.psu.edu (Randy Carraghan) writes:

>I'm not a FoxPro user, but I was interested in finding out more about the
>Rushmore Query Optimization they plan to use in release 2.0 of their product.
>The advertisement I read said that a patent had been applied for - does this
>mean that other databases would have to license the technology from FoxBase?

Depends on if they use Rushmore.  You can do things the old ways in
FoxPro 2.0, with standard .IDX index files.  No one will be forced
(except by the customers) to develop a dbms with Rushmore.

>The claim was that many queries could be performed one to two orders of
>magnitude faster with the Rushmore algorithms.  Are these algorithms
>available in publication?  I'd like to see some of the techniques used to
>fulfill the SQL queries.

Good luck.  :)

>Thanks in advance for any information...
>
>Randy

Bruce
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