Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> Alan wrote:
>>m sergei wrote:
>>
>>>I have a question about how is Database software constructed ?
>>>
>>>Say Oracle/Sybase etc database software, how are they programmed ? ie
>>>how is data actually stored in tables, or actually in files ?
>>
>>Here is a very simple explanation:
>>
>>Data is stored in logical structures called tables. These logical structures
>>are implemented physically in files.
>
> They might be, but it need not be that way.
Are you thinking in memory databases and raw devices or did you have
something else in mind? I think the 'file' concept somehow comes in
somehow everywhere albeit sometimes posing as 'container'.
Received on Fri Aug 13 2004 - 13:16:19 CDT
