System slowdown, DOS version of FP

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 07:41:31PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> > Alas, filePro *isn't* "a real relational database environment", by
> > which, I believe, you mean "something where the clients send queries
> > to the server, and the server sends back the set of records that
> > comprise the answers."
> 
> And that's not really the definition of a relational database if you
> used the 12 rules that C.J.Codd put forth in 1985.  Of course
> almost no database ever got all 12, but many databases sold as
> 'relational' weren't by any stretch of the imagination outside of
> the sales department.

Ok, yes, I was extrapolating one layer: what I think he's talking about
is client-server, but I've never seen an implementation of what you'd
call client server that didn't have underneath it what you'd call an
RDBMS -- Oracle, PostGreSQL, Informix, Unify, etc...

Cheers,
-- jra
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