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3 unusual facts about Data Access Manager


Data Access Manager

Core Data allows developers to serialize data into SQLite for processing, similar in concept to ODBC when used with a non-SQL data source.

The system was so impressive that it made other database vendors scramble to provide similar systems; Oracle Corporation immediately purchased PLUS from Spinnaker Software, releasing it first as Oracle Card, and then Oracle Media Objects.

The most common demo of the system showed a HyperCard stack querying a series of Baskin-Robbins databases, formerly impossible because each regional area used their own database servers which DAL now combined into one.



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