dpn@mtuxt.UUCP (D.NADLE) (08/02/85)
Intend to use Informex or dBase to support a software quality tracking database. Anyone wish to share their experiences or reference a software review of either DBMS? Thank in advance for any help. P.S. Anyone know of a good DOS based software archiver?
patrick@ISM780.UUCP (08/13/85)
I've recently started using Informix (on a UNIX system as opposed to DOS), and I'm very impressed. It's a very flexible relational database system, with powerful screen (form) and report generators provided. The latest version (at least in the UNIX) world comes with a query language (RDSQL - their own enhancement of IBM's SQL) which is also extremely powerful (you can create scripts, and run them from the command line). The system interfaces nicely with UNIX; for example, you can run an SQL script from a shell script to extract information and format it into flat files, then pipe it to another shell script for further processing. I've nver used DBase, but I know a little about it from others. If the DOS implementation of Informix is anything like the UNIX one, it's streets ahead of DBase.