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On Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 3:54:35 PM UTC-6, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote in message=20
> news:pahpof$1d9l$1
> > On 10/04/2018 06:08, Stephen Leake wrote:
> >
> >> I use the sqlite variant, but they also support others.
> >
> > SQLite is a single-file DB. It has a totally different purpose than DBM=
S=20
> > "proper", e.g. to be linked statically to an application in order to ke=
ep=20
> > some private persistent data. It wonders me why people keep on mentioni=
ng=20
> > it in the same row with MySQL, MS-SQL etc.
>=20
> Maybe because it is all most projects need, but clueless management has=
=20
> required a DBMS? So the programmers fake it by using SQLite and saying it=
 is=20
> a DBMS? (Few problems really need a DBMS.)

Few *NEED* one, but there's a lot that can benefit from one, some a great d=
eal. I believe that programming-in-general is just such an application: the=
 usage of the file-system as an ad-hoc database is really quite fragile and=
, I believe it's quite obvious, adds a lot of system-dependencies that are =
unnecessary. (eg file-name case sensitivity, timestamp resolution, etc.)