database formats

8 Nov 2005 10:19 PM

Darius

Trying to compile a document of all industry standard database formats. I can
think of SQL Server, Access, DBASE, SyBASE, Oracle, and ASCII .

Does anybody know other formats or where I can get a description of database
formats?

Asking partly out of curiosity and partly because I'd like to tell my
customer all the database formats my wonderful ado.net application will be
able to support.

thanks!

Darius.

9 Nov 2005 6:45 AM

Cor Ligthert [MVP]

Darius,

ASCII is in my opinion not a database format (it is a datafile). Sometimes
people call this as well a database, however mostly is with a database meant
a data storage where items at least can be retrieved and updated using
indexes and which have table(s) of rows.

Have a look here at connectionstrings than have you as well a lot of
databases formats.
(It are not all databases in the description I gave above)

http://www.connectionstrings.com/

http://www.carlprothman.net/Default.aspx?tabid=81

I hope this helps,

Cor

9 Nov 2005 11:53 AM

Darius

Cor,

you couldn't of helped me more, appreciate the help so much, what a great
resource connectionstrings is.

would agree referring to ASCII data file as a database is a misnomer as well
as they aren't relational and cannot be normalized or indexed.

- Darius.

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"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" wrote:

> Darius,
>
> ASCII is in my opinion not a database format (it is a datafile). Sometimes
> people call this as well a database, however mostly is with a database meant
> a data storage where items at least can be retrieved and updated using
> indexes and which have table(s) of rows.
>
> Have a look here at connectionstrings than have you as well a lot of
> databases formats.
> (It are not all databases in the description I gave above)
>
> http://www.connectionstrings.com/
>
> http://www.carlprothman.net/Default.aspx?tabid=81
>
> I hope this helps,
>
> Cor
>
>
>

9 Nov 2005 7:19 AM

CT

IBM DB2, XML

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Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but
they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling
everything. (Karl Lehenbauer)
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"Darius" <Dar***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E7C5B21C-BE29-4BF1-8EFD-BC82C7D38D18@microsoft.com...
> Trying to compile a document of all industry standard database formats. I
> can
> think of SQL Server, Access, DBASE, SyBASE, Oracle, and ASCII .
>
> Does anybody know other formats or where I can get a description of
> database
> formats?
>
> Asking partly out of curiosity and partly because I'd like to tell my
> customer all the database formats my wonderful ado.net application will be
> able to support.
>
> thanks!
>
> Darius.

9 Nov 2005 11:56 AM

Darius

thanks,

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"CT" wrote:

> IBM DB2, XML
>
> --
> Carsten Thomsen
> Communities - http://community.integratedsolutions.dk
> ---------
> Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but
> they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling
> everything. (Karl Lehenbauer)
> ---------
> "Darius" <Dar***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E7C5B21C-BE29-4BF1-8EFD-BC82C7D38D18@microsoft.com...
> > Trying to compile a document of all industry standard database formats. I
> > can
> > think of SQL Server, Access, DBASE, SyBASE, Oracle, and ASCII .
> >
> > Does anybody know other formats or where I can get a description of
> > database
> > formats?
> >
> > Asking partly out of curiosity and partly because I'd like to tell my
> > customer all the database formats my wonderful ado.net application will be
> > able to support.
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > Darius.
>
>
>