database formats

[Guest]

Trying to compile a document of all industry standard database formats. I can
think of SQL Server, Access, DBASE, SyBASE, Oracle, and ASCII .

Does anybody know other formats or where I can get a description of database
formats?

Asking partly out of curiosity and partly because I'd like to tell my
customer all the database formats my wonderful ado.net application will be
able to support.

thanks!

Darius.

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Darius,

ASCII is in my opinion not a database format (it is a datafile). Sometimes
people call this as well a database, however mostly is with a database meant
a data storage where items at least can be retrieved and updated using
indexes and which have table(s) of rows.

Have a look here at connectionstrings than have you as well a lot of
databases formats.
(It are not all databases in the description I gave above)

http://www.connectionstrings.com/

http://www.carlprothman.net/Default.aspx?tabid=81

I hope this helps,

Cor

 

[CT]

IBM DB2, XML

 

[Guest]

Cor,

you couldn't of helped me more, appreciate the help so much, what a great
resource connectionstrings is.

would agree referring to ASCII data file as a database is a misnomer as well
as they aren't relational and cannot be normalized or indexed.

- Darius.

 

[Guest]

thanks,

IBM DB2, XML