Re: dbase II on an AII ?

[salfter@salfter.ncc74656.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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Thug <thug5@NOSPAM.optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>"Rick" <nomail@nomail.com> wrote in message
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>> Also, were there any other relational DBs fot the Apple II?
>
>Many. Appleworks for one!

The AppleWorks database component is not an RDBMS.  You can only work with
one table at a time, and there's no built-in provision for building a query
that accesses multiple tables.  It might be possible to kludge something
together with UltraMacros that would simulate some of the functionality of
an RDBMS, but it'd be slow and painful.

DB Master Pro, OTOH, was marketed as a true RDBMS.  I don't have much
experience with it, though...once upon a time, I used it to keep a list of
Apple II files on GEnie back when I didn't have enough RAM to load that list
into AppleWorks (it kept tables on disk instead of trying to load them into
RAM).  I never did anything that would've taken advantage of any of its
relational features; while I've had Apple IIs for over 15 years, I've only
started doing anything with RDBMSes in the past year or so, and that's been
with Access and MySQL under Win9x and Linux (respectively), with some basic
dabbling in Oracle (nothing that couldn't be done with nearly any other SQL
DBMS) for a DB class I took last fall.

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