Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Sep 20 11:24:27 CDT 2012
Don't knock it; as of late I have been making a living making these pieces of cr.p run a few more years for clients who just do not want to dump their old POS junk. (Example: Oracle 6, 7 are real junk, DataBase 5 is worse, Informix is a lost soul, Thoroughbred OS should be outlawed and who still runs an accounting system using UNIX/Linux batch scripts?) Many say, "It has been working for twenty years why not another five...or at least until I retire." :-) Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 5:21 AM To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] Genealogy of Relational Databases Hi Arthur You wouldn't have missed it. It is still around but, if you ask me, is a piece of cr.p. A client uses it in a custom app for logging video recordings which creates a database. When this grows too "large" - that's about 50 MB(!) - it usually crashes and you have to repair it which takes about five minutes. A once major feature of SQLBase was that it ran on NetWare ... as did InterBase by the way (and Oracle 8 as well) - I still have the single-diskette install of InterBase for NetWare somewhere. /gustav >>> fuller.artful at gmail.com 20-09-12 13:19 >>> That's the one I was thinking of, Gustav! Sheesh, I've used a lot of databases over the years. That one I liked, but at the same time, thought I could see the writing on the wall, and its limited future. A. On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote: > Hi Arthur > > And SQLBase from Gupta? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLBase > > /gustav _______________________________________________ dba-SQLServer mailing list dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver http://www.databaseadvisors.com