RE: RDBMS - key strength

From: Robson, Peter <pgro_at_bgs.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 01:38:21 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0047CC37.20020613013821@fatcity.com>

Great question. Before answering myself, lets just be very careful to distinguish between RDBMS and SQL-databases. Oracle falls into the latter category, but not the former. Can anyone name a TRUE relational database management system currently available today?? ;-)

peter
edinburgh

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> From: Keith Peterson [mailto:keithpson_at_yahoo.com]
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> Subject: RDBMS - key strength
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> Suppose you were allowed only ONE sentence to describe
> the greatest strength of RDBMS's over say (object
> databases, legacy, etc.)... what would that be?
>
> Keith
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