Data Science in C: Combining CSV with SQL

In the last episode of Data Science in C I talked about the parser portion of my CSV library, which I implemented using automata. Now that we've parsed the CSV code and converted it into an abstract table structure, it's time to implement some operations on the table data so that we can actually use …

Exploring Borland dBase IV for DOS

Last week I took a dive into the office life of yesteryear with Microsoft Works 3.0 for DOS. Now I'm exploring some more retro business software, this time delving into the ancient database management system known as Borland dBase. dBase was THE first commercially successful DBMS for microcomputers, and in fact it is still active …