relational database questions

[David Groover]

I believe that Panorama actually is a relational db. The defining of  
it as such has to do with the way it was built. Panorama has an  
internal structure unseen by the user. I too am not an expert but I  
do believe this has been tossed around before and the experts  
consensus as that it is indeed relational. No, it doesn't use join  
tables but it is what you can't see that makes it so. Maybe they  
could have named it "Conundrum, the database that performs amazing  
feats but lets you stay up all night arguing about what it actually is."

;-)

David


On Apr 30, 2008, at 5:16 PM, O.Calvo wrote:

> I'm far from being a computer expert, least of all a programer, but  
> I can say this: I've been using Panorama for many, many years and  
> find it very easy to use as a relational database, comparing  
> millions of records of one list with hundred of thousands of  
> another, at an amazing speed matched by no other application that I  
> know of.
>
> OC
>
> On Apr 30, 2008, at 5:57 PM, Robert Ameeti wrote:
>
>> At 9:07 PM -0400, 4/29/08, Josh Davenport wrote:
>>
>>> 1) Panorama is a relational database,
>>
>> Not by any stretch of the imagination.
>>
>> See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database> and more  
>> specifically <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_model> for  
>> all of the reasons why Panorama is not a relational database.
>>
>> In short, a relational database would would follow the relational  
>> model and would have "... aims that included avoiding, without  
>> loss of completeness, the need to write computer programs to  
>> express database queries and enforce database integrity constraints."
>>
>> As you well know, Panorama has no automatic, built in, method for  
>> enforcing database integrity between tables. All of this is on the  
>> shoulders of the programmer to create, integrate, & enforce.
>> --
>>
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>> Robert Ameeti
>>
>> He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
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