[Info-vax] OpenVMS STARTUP Whitepaper

[Craig A. Berry]

On 12/10/20 11:28 PM, David Jones wrote:
> On Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 8:57:16 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> SQLite can be useful for storing the data, particularly for those
>> without Oracle licenses and that for whatever reason.
> 
> Using Oracle in your startup sequencer means you have to start it before you can run
> the thing that starts it -- somewhat problematic. A cloud-based database still needs the
> network running. I link the startup driver application statically with the sqlite3 library
> and run it with the data file flagged as immutable (readonly, no locking).

I believe in the case of Rdb there is no start-up because there is no
service -- you just link your code against the libraries and run it in
the context of whatever process.  In other words, the same way you are
running SQLite.