OpenEuphoria

Re: RDMS Database's and/or Record Managers

• Posted by "Euman" <euman at bellsouth.net> Jan 22, 2004
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From: "Ray Smith" <smithr at ix.net.au>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: RDMS Database's and/or Record Managers
 
> Euman wrote:
> > You all know I wrote the tsunami record manager wrappers and I want to
> > share somethings and get some kind of feedback.
> 
> Without spending much time responding I'll reply with the following
> points.
> 
> I feel like youre trying to convince people that record managers
> are a powerful tool (which is fine) 

Yes, Tsunami is very capable and powerfull

> but I dont believe you are giving people the full picture of what RDBMS can
> do.

Why would i? Have you even given tsunami a look Ray?
 
> Databases also contain mechanisms for:
> * security,=20
> * external access to the data through 3rd party tools (like ODBC),
> * powerful backup and restore features,
> * stores procedures and triggers,=20
> * referential integrity,
> * transaction support,
> * views,
> * some provide data replication and distribution,
> * and probably more things that I've never used (I'm not a big RDBMS=20
> user)

Just how much easier is this than the tsunami wrappers?
1) to learn
2) for speed
3) for security (any encryption routine will do, there are several in the RDS
archive)
                    *(Tsunami Pro has built-in encryption)
4) total control of your data


> The Pros for RDBMS
> 
> A good RDBMS is "almost" always required for large and complex
> projects.

Is this true? Can you see anything written useing euphoria's speed for large
projects anyway?

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no comment
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> Regards,
> 
> Ray Smith
> http://rays-web.com

Euman