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Old 05-09-2005, 06:07 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Traecer Prime
Yes, except you don't use SQL, and there's no real relational capability nor extensibility normally found in true databases.
You're making the very-common mistake of confusing a DBMS with an RDBMS. It does implement an SQL-like interface under the hood (read the SDK for details on this).

It isn't "relational" (at the core OS level) from an ANSI SQL perspective, but then again neither are a lot of commercial DBMS applications. Many applications provide their own {R}DBMS to augment the faculties already provided by PalmOS directly.

But OS2, OS3, OS4, and OS5 are most-definately using a very "structured query language" under the hood to read, write and manipulate records.
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