RE: SQL-defined files/tables

John Carr wrote:

>I don't know why the DB guys won't just admit that the designers of the
>Sys/38 had a great idea back in 1978+/-    with the Reference(with very
>liberal built in type casting).

Perhaps it is because the database folk consider that designing a database
"by hand" file by file is a obsolete as punched cards.  Much more common is
the use of a database design tool (database<>file) like IrWin.  The tool
generates OS specific "create file" instructions.  The programmer/analyst
concentrates on The Big Picture and leaves the details to the tool.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"Nothing is so firmly believed as
 that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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