DHASKIN@CLARKU.BITNET.UUCP (03/13/87)
Chris Johnson asked: > A quicky about cdd and datatrieve. Anybody know how intimately > they are inter-connected? Can datatrieve run anything without the cdd? Datatrieve requires the CDD... without it DTR would have no place to store definitions (domain, record, tables, plots, etc.) > (assuming anything useful can be done with datatrieve of course)? Ooh! nasty... I will grant that Datatrieve is not a DBMS or an RDB, but remember that it does not claim to be! We use Datatrieve substantially here at Clark to augment our administrative database system in providing reports, doing occasional database maintenance, and the like... our users find it relatively easy to use and *more importantly* functional; it lets them get what they need, and allows us (in the role of database administrator) to maintain the integrity of the database and of people's access to it. I would have to say it has been invaluable in the last three years, and continues to be maintained and improved by DEC (version 4 just came out). Whether or not Datatrieve is useful to you depends on your application, not on the product! Denis W. Haskin Manager, Technical Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DHASKIN@CLARKU.BITNET Office of Information Systems (617)793-7193 Clark University 950 Main Street Worcester MA 01610 "Anyone who _moves_ before Most Holy comes back out will spend the rest of eternity sipping lava through an iron straw." - Cerebus