[Info-vax] wrong file format

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/6/2021 10:39 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 1/6/2021 7:02 PM, 1tim.... at gmail.com wrote:
>> A set of records is what most businesses are dealing with, like item 
>> lookups based on attributes, getting order history, processing lines 
>> on an order, etc.
>>
>> then as a next go round, maybe simple joins on keys...but that begins 
>> to increase complexity, where maybe a native RDB or OODB starts making 
>> sense.
> 
> What you're suggesting is pretty much what decent RDBMS products 
> provide, along with many other advantages.
> 
> Rdb should have been made a part of the normal VMS distribution.  It 
> would have made VMS much more desirable, and locked more people into 
> it's advantages.

Interesting idea.

> In my own personal opinion, and I'm biased, the greatest flaw of RMS was 
> not including record and field definitions associated with ISAM and 
> Relative files.

If I remember correctly, then the "vision" back then was to store
such info in CDD as part of VAX Information Architecture.

Arne