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Before databases you had only flat files or VSAM (and before that, ISAM) for your data. Good luck debugging your data in a VSAM cluster. https://en.wikipedia.or
by mkesper 10y ago
Before databases you had only flat files or VSAM (and before that, ISAM) for your data. Good luck debugging your data in a VSAM cluster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSAM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSAM
- SmellTheGlove 10y agoThankfully, SAS handles VSAM reasonably well. Don't ask me why I know this, or why I need to continue to know this.
- brudgers 10y agoMy apologies for not being clear. By "data structures" I meant data structures and by implication that COBOL provided an abstraction over bytes in memory or on persistent storage media. The premise of my statement is that SQL is also an abstraction over bytes in memory or on persistent storage media in similar use cases.