From: ibisnestremovespambit@iinet.net.au   
      
   Dominick DiMantova wrote:   
   > Hello, I would like to know if I can get an overview of a paradox database   
   > structure and architecture? I'm applying for a migration position that   
   requires   
   > familiarity with paradox database structure. Can someone help me by sending   
   > documentation to my email account, dominickdimantova@comcast.net? I really   
   > would appreciate this.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   It is a file-based Relational Database Management System. That is, the   
   RDBMS tables and their various metadata and indices are held as lots of   
   files, rather than the single large file / all eggs in one basket of   
   Bill's boys pathetic offerings... (but I digress...)   
      
   You can use Paradox to inspect all tables and their fields, as well as   
   relational integrity constraints and meta-data.   
      
   Provided that your database has been properly designed, you will (a)   
   understand the wonderful nature of a properly designed RDBMS and (b)   
   question why you would want to migrate from it.   
      
   All business rules (unfortunately) are held in the application code   
   (Pascal look-alike called OPAL) and (obscure) table-driven components.   
      
   Thus, you may seek the long-gone and (deservedly) dead developers to   
   attempt to strangle them.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)