Re: Development as Configuration

Alfredo Novoa wrote:

> >Sure, there are other features that are important for DBMS tools,
such
> >as security and referential integrity, but many a software
application
> >has included code for those features too. To date it appears to me
> >that people license DBMS tools for the PRIMARY, not negotiable,
feature
> >of having an API for creating, reading, updating, and deleting data
on
> >secondary storage devices, even if there are other important
features
> >too. Right?
>
> Completely wrong. The primary function of a DBMS is to manage data
and
> not to be misused as a file system.

I'm not suggesting what the purpose is -- I saying what a primary requirement from the user's perspective it is meeting. There are DBMS's that are missing a lot of features, but I don't know of any that are deemed to be DBMS's and are missing a CRUD API. So, I would suggest that from the standpoint of someone who is looking for a DBMS, one feature they would not be interested in compromising on is whether it has a CRUD API. It is, I'll repeat, a primary feature for any DBMS product. Do you really disagree with that? If so, please provide a URL for a DBMS that is missing this feature. Thanks. --dawn  

>
> Regards
Received on Thu May 05 2005 - 21:42:00 CEST