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From: reden@sys1.TANDY.COM
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Subject: Re: Rdb
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Date: 17 Jul 88 01:27:00 GMT
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>I am in the process of designing a database using Rdb and never having
>used Rdb before I was wondering how well it performed.  

I am currently using RDB with a Datagrive interface to maintain hardware
and software information for our network.  Overall, I like it.  It's very 
flexible in the way you can set up your data and I like the ability (and have
used it) to change relation data structures at will.               

I have found my database to be rather slow, especially at startup.  I think
this is mostly due to Datagrive being slow.  I did notice a very large 
improvement when I added indexes to the relations.  Adding constraints did
slow things down a lot though.  I think updating constraints at COMMIT time
does decrease the loading.

The only problems I have had deal with Datagrive, but it is more conveienent
that writing your own program and a little more powerfull than RDO.

Hope this helps...    

Robert

reden@sys1.uucp