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From: chari@nueces.UUCP (Christopher M. Whatley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT Database Prowess
Message-ID: <306@nueces.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 89 20:24:31 GMT
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Reply-To: chari@nueces.UUCP (Christopher M. Whatley)
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In article <89227.110740UH2@PSUVM> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
>Also, perhaps we should call this software something else.  In some quarters,
>"database" refers to the management of more structured material comprising
>"entities" which have "attributes" (like Employee == name, age, salary, ssn ).
>Since NeXT has (will have) such database capabilities, it is confusing
>to call the Webster's and Shakespeare capabilities "database", too.

What is wrong with "free-form database" and "relational database". That is
what you have with "index" and Sybase SQL.

>I suggest we call them "Information Retrieval" utilities.

Gee, is seems like I just retrieved some information from Fourth Dimension
awhile ago and that I just made a mod.recipes database with "index" a few
days ago. Confusing?!?


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