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From: mjr@well.UUCP (Matthew Rapaport)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Database Machines (was: minor plug for Britton Lee)
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Date: Fri, 29-May-87 09:49:25 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 29 09:49:25 1987
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PICK by Pick Systems (So. Cal.) is a perfect example of the #2 approach
to database machines, and there is a very good discussion of the problems
and promises (and the promises are not great) of the #1 approach in
C.J. Date's "An Introduction to Database Systems" Vol II (Addison
Wesley 1983.