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[Bret Busby]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, James Elliott wrote:

> 
> The only Microsoft package that got a mention in the whole course was Access
> in the Unit on Databases ... that's OK because Orcale is the king of the
> huge, distributed databases and Access is the best, if not the only,
> relational database for standalone PC's
> 
> 

Perhaps, you can qualify that, by explaining how the following are 
neither relational databases for workstations (the more correct term 
than "standalone PC's"), nor better than Access.
PostgreSQL
Foxpro
Gupta SQL Windows Solo
Paradox
Adabas (as used in Star Office 5.2)

as just a few alternatives. Foxpro, for example, is far more powerful, 
and has better record locking.

And, who crowned "Orcale", "king of the huge distributed databases"? Was 
that you? How do you qualify that?

Or, is this all just a student professing knowledge?

"Drink deep, 
or taste not the Pierian Spring.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
and drinking largely sobers us again."
- Alexander Pope; "An Essay on Criticism"

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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