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1 total messages Started by alexis Tue, 04 Mar 1986 08:45
Databases (Rbase 5000, MacLion) MAJOR WARNING
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Author: alexis
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1986 08:45
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I just read the recent summary of database info, and I can't resist adding my
two cents on this, as it's something of a specialty of mine.

First of all, RBASE 5000 is the most disgraceful, unprofessional piece of
garbage I've ever seen in a relational database. I don't know what parts of
Rbase the respondant in the query was using, but it has more bugs than I can
count. SERIOUS BUGS, not little diddly stuff. A small part of a bug list would
include:
1) Totally broken string handling. It doesn't understand nulls, it can't even
   pad out a string (it a
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