[Info-vax] OpenVMS STARTUP Whitepaper

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-12-11 kl. 19:35, skrev Arne Vajhøj:

> That type of pro/con is beyond my current Rdb knowledge
> (I have not worked with it professionally since 1998).
> 

I have worked professional with Rdb since V3.2 (early 90's)
without a real break.

>>> But will Rdb work properly without the RDMS_MONITOR and RMU processes 
>>> running?
>>
>> No, your application will not do anything with the data without having
>> an "OK" from the monitor. You send an "attach request" (well, the code
>> in the sharable images does) to the monitor and the monitor says "OK".
> 
>>> Will it work properly without the Rdb logicals being defined?
>>
>> No, you need at least some of the logicals setup by the startup file.
> 
> That is what I thought.
> 
> Rdb is not really like SQLite.
> 

No. And I do not remember, but have anyone really said so?

I havn't looked too closely, but SQLite seems to me more like
dBase-III with an SQL front-end.


> Arne