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- From: cpetersn@iastate.edu (Clifton R Peterson)
- Subject: Re: Abstract DATA storrage
- Message-ID: <cpetersn.721687887@vincent1.iastate.edu>
- Keywords: Abstract database
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <1992Nov13.170506@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 20:51:27 GMT
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- In <1992Nov13.170506@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be> stud11@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be (Lode Vande Sande) writes:
- You might want to check AREV by Revelation Technologies. It allows for
- variable length records and fields within the records up to a current max
- of 64K per record. It has the abilities to do intertable links in whatever
- fashion you design. It has SQL query incorporated into it.
-
- I'm not sure that it'll do what you're thinking of but it might be worth
- investigating more deeply. By the way, it only runs on ibm/ms style DOS.
-
- I'm not associated with Revelation Technologies in any way other than I
- develop in AREV so I like to see its user base get larger so it becomes an
- even more stable product. It has evolved continually over the last 10 years
- from a near PICK spinoff to much more (at least as far as I can tell by
- listening to the old timers that use it).
-
- >Hello I would like to make a relational database for abstract objects.
-
- >Ex: I would like to link VIRTUAL_POSITIONS to other VIRTUAL_POSITIONS and
- >FILES to those positions to get a filesystem (Virtual). I also want to link
- >some kind of ofbjects to the files. (Ex: A mail or a book).
-
- >Till now I haven't found a databse being able to store an abstract amount of
- >data.
-
- >Do I really need to write it myself AGAIN ?
-
- >Thankx.
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