Re: DBKEY Datatype

"David Cressey" <david.cressey_at_earthlink.net> wrote:

>I've talked to Jim Starkey, and I don't think it's quite right to call him
>"the original designer/coder of DEC Rdb".

OK, my bad.

>Jim built Rdb/ELN, a product that is quite different, internally, from
>Rdb/VMS.

What does the ELN stand for?

> The fact that both Rdb/ELN and Rdb/VMS conformed to the same DSRI
>was undoubtedly due, in part, to Starkey's inputs. I agree that the
>influence of Rdb in Interbase is evident.

DRSI?
>I don't know anything at all about Firebird. Any pointers?

It's actually a pretty amazing powerful db with a *_tiny_* footprint compared to the likes of Oracle, but is still capable of doing a good part of what Oracle does. The server it 1.5 MB, yes, that's MB. The download for server, including all tools &c. is 3.6 MB. It can work with multi 100GB of data with hundreds of concurrent users.

http://firebird.sourceforge.net/
http://www.ibphoenix.com

Should get you started. Look in the history here http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_history

Paul...

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