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- From: jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Re: Database recommendations
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.062031.511@relief.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 06:20:31 GMT
- References: <37284@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Sender: jjfeiler@relief.com
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- Organization: relief consulting
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- In article <37284@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> mstankus@oba.ucsd.edu (Mark Stankus)
- writes:
- > In article <seaim=y00WA78imGZf@andrew.cmu.edu> da0g+@andrew.cmu.edu (David
- Apfelbaum) writes:
- > >
- > >It looks like I am going to need to tie together a rather large amount
- > >of data as we convert an existing database's datafiles over to the NeXT.
- > > DBKit seems to be an ideal solution. However, that still leaves a
- > >choice of Sybase or Oracle for the underlying database.
- > >
- > >So, are there any recomendations? Advantages or Disadvantages?
- > >
- > >
- > > Thanks for your time....
- > >
- > > -David Apfelbaum.
- > > da0g+@andrew.cmu.edu
- >
- >
- > Check out ParaBase -- it makes the database use easier
- > and acts as a front end to Sybase or Oracle.
- >
- > Mark Stankus
-
- However, Parabase uses it's own data formats to store data, so even thought
- you can do a lot if stuff in paraBase, forget about ever using the sabe
- database from DBKit......
-
-
- > mstankus
- > mstankus@oba
-