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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: libgnadeodbc
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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> 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 DBMS 
> "proper", e.g. to be linked statically to an application in order to keep 
> some private persistent data. It wonders me why people keep on mentioning 
> it in the same row with MySQL, MS-SQL etc.

Maybe because it is all most projects need, but clueless management has 
required a DBMS? So the programmers fake it by using SQLite and saying it is 
a DBMS? (Few problems really need a DBMS.)

                        Randy.