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From: "dawn" <dawnwolthuis@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Mildly OT: dBASE IV
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David Cressey wrote:
<snip>
> For the next 15 years or so, I spent helping people with Rdb and/or Oracle
> databases get more bang for the buck.  Perhaps that's why my experience is
> so contrary to what Dawn recounts.

Yes.  I did ISAM/VSAM (and Pr1me MIDAS, also indexed-sequential) before
working with DBMS's, starting with IMS (hierarchical).  Almost all
significant production code I have written for any companies (rather
than for myself) was done with VSAM and IMS.  Then  Prime Information
(mv), UniData (mv), Oracle, MySQL, misc others (a little Access,
PostgreSQL), OpenQM (mv) & U2 (mv), all primarily in mgmt roles.

So my experience with SQL-DBMS's is much more limited than yours, but
my experiences are varied with a range of data models used for stored
data as well as a range of project roles.  I appreciate hearing
perspectives from the experiences of others, yourself included.
Cheers!  --dawn