Re: database systems and organizational intelligence

Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra <leandro_at_dutra.fastmail.fm> wrote:

[snip]

>> None of us have, although I'd still be interested to hear more from those
>> who dealt with old network databases as SQL was coming to the forefront...
>> SQL was embraced as solving problems, but did it? Did it solve some and
>> introduce new ones?

     Does not every new solution do that?

> SQL is hugely superior to everything before it. In xBase,

     Quite though hardly perfect.

>ISAM, CODASYL, IMS you had to program your way around. No optimiser,
>no declarations, no ad hoc end-users...

     It is good of you to use past tense since at least one of these (xBASE) has had SQL for about fifteen years.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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