From: dominickdimantova@comcast.net   
      
   OK, thanks. Is it possible that there is a diagram of a typical paradox   
   database   
   structure, with its tables, stuff like that?   
      
      
      
      
   Robert Molyneux  wrote:   
   >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.   
   >   
      
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