Reply to: What's up with the perl market?

[Euro-commuter]

And didn't it first come out as dBase II, there never actually ever being a dBase I?

Correct. They thought it would sound more advanced if it was taken to be the second version.

[AtW]

I remember dBase II...

Yes, me too - in USSR they ripped it off and used in Unis as "Rebus" - the interesting thing about dBase ][ is that there was no dBase I - the guy who made it thought it would be good marketing trick to pretend it is 2nd version of the product and thus it is more reliable: no wonder Microsoft switched to versions like Windows 2000!

Made quite a bit of easy money going around and increasing the number of handles in the DOS system.ini, IIRC.

You mean config.sys!

[threaded]

It was better when it was still called Vulcan...

And didn't it first come out as dBase II, there never actually ever being a dBase I?

[VectraMan]

Real men don't have a clue what the heck this thread is talking about!!

Real men wouldn't have bothered with an off the shelf solution and just implemented their own in assembler.

[Vito]

Real men run DB2 UDB

Real men don't have a clue what the heck this thread is talking about!!

[Euro-commuter]

I remember dBase as a rip of of Retreive. Made quite a bit of easy money going around and increasing the number of handles in the DOS system.ini, IIRC. It was one of the things that taught me just how fscking useless most of these people who play at programming on PCs really are. Yet took me quite a while to realise the whole of the IT market was going to head that way: people coding stuff up without a clue to what is actually going off under the hood.

My God, I had forgotten that. Good thing you don't have to do anything like that with Windows, it just works straight out of the box (c) Dim Prawn.

[Euro-commuter]

Anyone remember DataEase? Or Fox Pro with it's Mount Rushmore goodness ?

Yeah! I remember DEASE.

[threaded]

I remember dBase as a rip of of Retreive. Made quite a bit of easy money going around and increasing the number of handles in the DOS system.ini, IIRC. It was one of the things that taught me just how fscking useless most of these people who play at programming on PCs really are. Yet took me quite a while to realise the whole of the IT market was going to head that way: people coding stuff up without a clue to what is actually going off under the hood.

[Board Game Geek]

Anyone remember DataEase? Or Fox Pro with it's Mount Rushmore goodness ?

[thunderlizard]

My experience is limited, but I've never seen a perl scripter actually finish a project. They just kind of continue to exist in a state of fluctuting perl-scriptiness. Maybe that's why they just want permanent perl people.

[PRC1964]

You should go for PICK the multi-valued database that beat them all.

Well maybe 20 years ago.

[AtW]

DB2 is sh1t too - IBM support is pretty much useless and you can't really do much yourself as otherwise you might invalidate their support contract: a con designed to rip you off of course.

What really FKING pissed me off about DB2 is that stored procedures support was sh1t comparing to Sybase/MS SQL: of all the databases T-SQL is really the best, and Sybase is really gold standard of databases, pity they are going down now - just proves that being the best does not always mean being successful

[darmstadt]

Real men run DB2 UDB

[AtW]

I run Postgres for about 2 years and was deeply disappointed - it is a pile of sh1t that is extremely slow, and worst of all it requires fking vacuum to run regularly otherwise database slows down to crawl - I am not too fussy about speed, but Postgres turned out to be a crock and I used very small database with very few updates, it was practically read only, yet Postgres was getting slower and slower: ffs, it was better to reload database from scratch than to vacuum it.

As soon as I swiched to MS SQL server all problems went way - no wonder it is based on good Sybase code, banks in the city used it a lot, not sure if they still do, but they did and there was good reason for that.

[portseven]

Postgres is the biggest crock out there - replaced it with MS SQL server and never looked back.

Really? Thought it was the opposite, have a few mates who really rate Postgres, lots of 'enterprise' features apparently.