Paul Hill wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Stephen Russell<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Paul Hill<[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Alan Bourke<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:24 -0500, [email protected] wrote: >>>>> I'm curious. What DB would the .Net framework install? >>>> None. >>> Well there are ADO.NET DataSets, which you could call a memory-based DB. >>> Support for filtering, sorting etc. >>> >>> Weakly typed though. [grumble grumble] >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> I disagree that they are close or confused with a DB in memory. >> >> DataSets are just memory containers that can contain N DataTables. > > But you can: > - Iterate through them > - Filter them > - Sort them > - Set up relationships > - Enforce data integrity > > Smells like a database to me. > > And as you can load/save to XML files they are adequate for a single > user, small database (say, an address book).
Sounds like a database to me, too. It doesn't matter if the data gets saved anywhere besides volatile memory. What matters is if data gets stored in some structured way for any length of time. It wouldn't (in itself) be a database server, of course (it could be if you wrapped it with a running server that queries and/or updates it), but what you describe is a database. IMO Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
