Re: Ah, but who has better parties?

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

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>>> Where I'm working we're finishing a retail and warehousing project for a
>>> supermarket chain replacing their old xBase system, because that system
>>> can't be data mined except by programming.

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> The anedocte I told is not in any manner about industry
>standards. It is about technical capabilities inherent in general
>data models, in this case navigational (xBase) vs quasi- or
>sub-relational (SQL).

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> Now to qualify that, I know indeed Pick is live and kicking.
>But so is xBase, and sequential files at that. And that doesn't make
>them relevant anymore than Egypt still being quite a country makes
>them the world superpower they once was.

     Ah, you may be out-of-date wrt xBASE. Various xBASEs have had SQL for up to fifteen years now. I use Microsoft Visual FoxPro, and it most assuredly has SQL capabilities.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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     You have biases.
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