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From: py@meadow.uucp (Peter Yeung)
Subject: Re: Relational Database info needed.
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.152225.15839@meadow.uucp>
Reply-To: py@meadow.UUCP (Peter Yeung)
Organization: Amdahl Canada Ltd., Software Development Center
References: <5383.28501503@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <1991Jun09.222112.10715@chinet.chi.il.us> <5400.285550fb@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <25335@oolong.la.locus.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 15:22:25 GMT

In article <25335@oolong.la.locus.com> jfr@locus.com (Jon Rosen) writes:
>In article <5400.285550fb@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> dlfrost@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
>
> ... description of FOCUS deleted ...
>

I heard that in the mainframe world, some people use FOCUS as a front end
for DBMS like DB2. What is the ticket?

> 
>  PS - I would also argue that dBase II/III/IV (and its lookalikes)
>  is not a relational database either and I have so argued for
>  many years... Again, that doesn't make it bad, simply not
>  relational...
> 

Right on! It really irritates me when people saying that dBase ? is a
relational database system - they don't even do auto indexing for you!

>  Jon Rosen


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