relational database?

Ruediger Maehl ruediger.maehl_nospam at web.de
Wed Apr 3 08:00:33 EST 2002


"Paul Boddie" <paul at boddie.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> [snip]
> Well, there's a combination of commands that one apparently needs to
> execute to restart the database server, and this appears necessary
> when recreating databases. Unfortunately, the "how to" documentation
> isn't particularly clear about this, beyond a terse summary of how it
> might be done:
>
>   http://www.sapdb.org/sap_db_howto.htm
>
> Then, there are the obvious questions? What does <DOMAIN_password>
> mean when one hasn't been specified in the instructions? It certainly
> isn't a Windows domain password, for example, but one is left
> wondering.

That's true.

> [snip]
> Indeed. Anyway, my main point was that even for people who have
> installed and evaluated a fair number of database systems, such as
> myself, the documentation for SAP DB is more "opaque" than for many
> other systems. For those people who don't tend to install lots of
> packages, I would have a hard time recommending SAP DB for that very
> reason.

You are right, I perhaps underestimated the 'easy to setup' part of the
original posting.

> Paul

Rüdiger





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