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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!


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