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what is DBMS

  • August 9, 2005 at 5:44 am

    #94402

    what exactly mean by RDBMS? what is the difference b/w dbms and

    rdbms?

  • August 9, 2005 at 6:02 am

    #580658

    (R)elational (D)atabase (M)anagement (S)ystem.  R = relational, without it = flat files.

    However, nowadays RDBMS is equal to DBMS to most non-techs....



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  • August 9, 2005 at 6:30 am

    #580670

    That from the same guys who don't understand why their password doesn't work with cap locks on .

  • August 9, 2005 at 7:50 am

    #580719

    Thanq Remi Gregoire

  • August 9, 2005 at 8:05 am

    #580729

    I was reffering to this quote "However, nowadays RDBMS is equal to DBMS to most non-techs...."

    not you .

  • August 10, 2005 at 2:43 pm

    #581215

    Actually, there's lots of kinds of DBMS's that are not relational. There's VSAM, ISAM and it's variants, there are network databases and even stranger things out there. Your choices are definitely NOT limited to relational and flatfiles. 😉

    Steve G.

  • August 10, 2005 at 3:34 pm

    #581240

    Steve,

    You are absolutely correct, there are multiple different types of DB-types out there.  Some of the types you listed could be considered flat-files as well.  I was just trying to provide a generalization...



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