There is a book at my library called "PROGRAMMMING IN BASIC THE EASY WAY" It doesn't really talk about databases, but it does have an example. Ryan Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: > Hi Charlie, > > I checked my library and very few books on programming seem to go much beyond > the bare mention of the fact that Data Bases exist and are used. I did find > one, however, "Principles of Information Systems Analysis and Design" by Mills, > Linger and Hevner that has the last 14 pages of the book devoted to discussing > the topic, with diagrams and what appears to be a fairly competent description. > > If I were to tackle the implementation of a Data Base, I (get off my back > everyone) would implement something with all of the functionality that > HyperCard provides as a starting model, adding such "relational features" as > were needed after the basic structure was working. Regardless of the state of > things with HC/HT, it is a "great" data base model. > > IMHO, > > Joe Wilkins > General Editor of "FB^3 - the Book" > > charlie robin wrote: > > > ??v?j8 ?? > > ??? ?a* > > ????p ?a* v?` ??\ > > ??p ??0 ?=? M??????????? ?a* ??? M?? ?a( ?a* > > ??X M?? > > ?? BContent-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > > > This is slightly off topic, but does anybody have any ideas about good books > > on database development? (I don't mean books on developing databases using > > existing database tools, but books on how to develop database environments.) > > I guess the topics that would need to be included would be file structures, > > virtual memory, search/sort algorithms and so forth. > > > > Any pointers? I've checked Amazon, but all the books seem to be about > > specific packages, rather than about how to create such a package oneself. > > > > TIA > > > > Charlie > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, send ANY message to <futurebasic-unsubscribe@...> > > -- > To unsubscribe, send ANY message to <futurebasic-unsubscribe@...> _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com