Delft University of Technology
Faculty Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering Transport Technology
J.H.A.M. Gorissen Evaluatie van het softwarepakket DATABOSS.
Computer program, Report 93.3.LT.4133, Transport Engineering and Logistics.
The database-package studied appears to be a good option, for certain specific situations, to link a Pascal-program to a database. These situations can be described by the following aspects:
end-user is not the most important user of the application good communication between designer and end-user possible quick application of relative simple database is desired
the data exchanged (desired field selection) is not, per definition, of the same quantity and arranged in the same way The DATABOSS package offers for such links a special import-/export function.
The design principle that has to be used is easy to learn. But the level that can be reached with the quick start, the user can make in learning how to use DATABOSS suffices only to implement relatively simple datamodels. Because of the structure of the manual it is difficult for the user to develop himself more advanced datamodels.
A big advantage of the package is that to implement a datamodel, the user has has to specify the different datafields only. DATABOSS will then
automatically generate the database in the desired language (Pascal,C,C++). This also makes it possible to change, relatively easy, from one programming language to another.
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