Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!iuvax!pur-ee!pur-phy!sawmill!mdbs!greg From: greg@mdbs.UUCP (Greg Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: PC database product opinions requested Summary: MDBSIII, it's easy Message-ID: <994@mdbs.UUCP> Date: 10 Jan 89 14:02:01 GMT References: Reply-To: greg@mdbs.UUCP (Greg Feldman) Organization: mdbs Inc., Lafayette IN Lines: 32 In article slores%gables.span@umigw.miami.edu (Stanislaw L. Olejniczak) writes: >This is a request for opinions about dBase III + (IV ok) vs. Paradox. I have a >small applications that will grow with time. The users are about as naive as >they come. The appilications will have two sugnificant features: >large files (zilions of records) >four files now, up to eight later, from which information will have to be >extracted. >The whole thing has to run on a PC (large disk). >I know of dBase and I have heard of Paradox. If you can suggest which one you ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ I'd say more than about 20Meg would be really pushing these guys. >like better and why, OR if you can suggest another product that you think may >serve better, I would be most grateful for any advice. I would appreciate Take a look at MDBSIII (yes, we sell it). There are folks using it on LANs with databases around 400-600 Meg. They are quite happy folks. MDBSIII interfaces with various programming languages, like C, Cobol, Pascal, Basic, and a few of our own, Knowledgeman and Guru. P.S., I saw someone worrying about DOS's 32 Meg File limit, that can be taken care of by increasing your SECTOR size during disk config time. (like, it's a good thing to know ahead of time :-)) It's not really the 32Meg limit, but the number of sectors. Since there is a limit of 64K sectors, and the default sector size under DOS is 512, 64K * 512 = 32Meg. So, 64K * 2048 = 128 Meg. A larger sector size has it's good and bad sides, but that's another story... Also, you can partition your Large Disk so it can support multiple drives. P.S.S. --> how big's a zillion?