Has anyone here used UniVerse?

[Walter Vaughan]

Fairlight wrote:

> Only Walter Vaughan would say something like:
> 
> 
>>>I usually find official docs helpful.
>>
>>One would think. I've read just about every page out of thousands, and
>>have the full documentation set. I know how to administer it ( replicate,
>>backup, and tune it up), understand that Universe Basic is in some ways
>>similar to filePro, setup users and permissions, but heaven help me fine
>>a simple code fragment on how to create a database and add records to a
>>file.
> 
> 
> For starters: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/25119240.pdf
> 
> It's described as:
> 
>        Describes administrative tasks typically performed by DBAs, such
>        as maintaining database integrity and security, and creating and
>        modifying databases.
>  
> If that document doesn't tell you how to create a database, I'd be very
> surprised.  :)

It did. However it appeared on page TWO of the table of contents of the CD worth 
of pdf's which is why I was bleary eyed and gave up and asked here before I got 
that far. Actually I didn't realize the table of contents of tables of contents 
was 4 pages long. It seems weird that if one was to read serially all the 
information on a DBMS it would be after 40 documents of hundreds of pages before 
they talked about creating the data store.

Kinda like getting a book on C# for Dummies and all the first 30 chapters talk 
about how UPS's work and how AMD CPU's convert x86 opcodes into RISC 
instructions and why that cache size is the most important item in computer 
performance since a L2 cache miss can cause hundreds of lost clock cycles. I 
understood most of what they said, it just was not the "hello world" example you 
would think that would be near the beginning.

Thanks.

Seems weird this U2 system. It's abstracted in layers so that it can work with 
PHP, java, AJAX, XML, .net and yet still work in a 80x24 world. This MultiValued 
thing is weird as well. They get all excited about what in essence is an 
associated field in filePro terms. Since browse lookups came along I have always 
thought that associated fields are "evil" "lazy" "gonna bite you" things to be 
avoided. These people hang their hat on it... filePro, the "associated field" 
database.