Re: MIDRANGE-L Digest V4 #328

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.)
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