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A file server does that, it serves files. A database server, on the other hand, serves records. Novel server is a file server, you get the whole file, or none of the file. You can't ask for specific records. SQL server is a database server. You ask for individual records based on criteria. The AS/400 server seems to be both. DB2 can be gotten to using ODBC, making it a database server. Using the IFS, it is a file server. NT server can also be both, if you have SQL server installed. Regards, Jim Langston Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 12:23:00 -0400 From: D.BALE@handleman.com Subject: RE: What About Price vs. Perform At the high risk of jumping into this volatile thread and of potentially embarrasing myself, could someone please distinguish how a file server is different than a database server? Spending the bulk of my career on the IBM midrange, I have used "database" and "file" interchangably. Only more recently have I come to understand (correct me if I'm wrong) that the AS/400 has one "database", DB2/400 or whatever IBM has renamed it to, and that we have thousands of data "files" of the physical and logical variety. Dan Bale IT - AS/400 Handleman Company 248-362-4400 Ext. 4952 D.Bale@Handleman.com Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur. (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.) +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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