[Tfug] sorry 'bout the new thread

[Bexley Hall]

--- On Tue, 6/9/09, Liz_Ravenwood at beaerospace.com <Liz_Ravenwood at beaerospace.com> wrote:

> but...  regarding the question
> regarding Jet being a "real" database?
> 
> Why wouldn't it be?  It  has relations, joins, tables,
> fields, recordsets, indices, pk's, fk's.  ??? 
>
> what is a "real" database
> by - was it Eric?  by Eric's definition?

Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, etc.  :>

People (myself included) tend to impose "expectations"
(performance, capabilities, etc.) on things as a threshold
for "what qualifies".  E.g., was Windows 3.1 an "operating
system"?

<shrug>