[dba-Tech] database

 Hi Jim --

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 there was no Oracle, Linux, MySQL etc etc...
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But Oracle was available already - twenty years ago - in January 1993:

- Oracle -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Database

as well as:

- dBase -  http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBase
- R:Base -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R:Base
- Paradox -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_(database )
- MS Access -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Access
- dbVista (Raima Data Manager) -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raima
- ...

Have you used file system "database" that "ancient" times to get your POS software to fit into memory? 
Are you still keeping (some of) your POS application system production and history data out of a database?

Thank you.

-- Shamil

Суббота, 26 января 2013, 16:40 -08:00 от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>:
>Constraints? What's a constraint? ;-)
>
>What's all that fancty talk...this database is over twenty years old, there
>was no Oracle, Linux, MySQL etc etc...
>
>Jim 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:  dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hans-Christian
>Andersen
>Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 4:15 PM
>To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
>Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] database
>
>
>Does this database have constraints in any shape or form? If the database is
>capable of constraints (most modern databases do, but older ones, I feign
>ignorance) and it was implemented properly, it makes life a heck of a lot
>easier, since you can a quick overview of the relationships between
>different tables - thus making your life easier.
>
>- Hans
>
>
>On 2013-01-26, at 11:28 AM, "Jim Lawrence" < accessd at shaw.ca > wrote:
>
>> Hi Gustav:
>> 
>> I do have incredible confidence in you guys.
>> 
>> It never hurts to be a little overly cautious with these sort of events
>and
>> who knows, there may be a obvious "got-ya" that I have over-looked. 
>> 
>> Jim 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:  dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
>> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 10:50 AM
>> To:  dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
>> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] database
>> 
>> Hi Jim
>> 
>> I must say you have great confidence in us. After a couple of months'
>> planning you ask for good advice within the hour!
>> 
>> That said, and as already mentioned, I would certainly look for setting
>> cascade deletes.
>> 
>> /gustav
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