Re: Relational Databases and Their Guts

From: Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra <lgcdutra_at_terra.com.br>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 00:10:40 +0200
Message-ID: <pan.2003.06.17.22.10.38.390658@terra.com.br>

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:01:54 -0300, Guillermo Labatte wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 04:02:20 -0300, Bryce Byrd wrote:
>

>> I have been looking on the internet for information about actually
>> coding a relational database from scratch.

You mean a RDBMS, right? Sigh...

>> Not that I really want to
>> but I'm curious as to how its done. I havn't been able to find any
>> information on the specifics like general accepted structure of the
>> storage (both on disk and in memory) or methods of searching through the
>> data. If any of you know a good website that might be able to give me
>> the information I'm looking for I would greatly appreciate it.

There aren't any generally accepted stuff.

The more interesting stuff I've seen are the TransRelational stuff, that last time I checked was off the web, and before that very secretive, and patented; and some ideas by Nathan Allan from Alphora, but I'm not aware he did ever publish.

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