Data warehousing LO8744

arthur battram (apb@cityplex.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 30 Jul 1996 18:02:15 +0000

responding to LO8710

Michael McMaster recommends

> exploration of FolioViews (a software package that allows you
>to search data by your own - changing - logic which is based on creating a
>complete dictionary of words and phrases in the data base) as a means to
>destroy the need for predetermined context.
>
>I don't know the scalability of this package but find it the only way of
>much personal value so far for searching even those databases that I've
>created myself let alone those of others.

I've used Views myself, it's OK, which is to say its much better than any
other dB system..and it is scalable, if by that you mean usable on big
masses of data on a big network/intranet/internet, whatever... and its
also cross-platform- DOs, Windows, Mac, Unix...

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