[Tfug] sorry 'bout the new thread

[Eric Gearhart]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Bexley Hall<bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- On Tue, 6/9/09, Liz_Ravenwood at beaerospace.com <Liz_Ravenwood at beaerospace.com> wrote:
>> 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>

Hear, hear... I became very disillusioned by Jet as a database
solution the first time I babysat an Exchange 5.5 server that wouldn't
mount its information store all night (Exchange uses a modified Jet DB
engine)

See http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvradmin/thread/29a3cee8-a25e-4835-bbf2-87f40f342e4b
for all the gory details of those days

--
Eric
http://nixwizard.net