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Peer reviewedPollard, Richard – Information Technology and Libraries, 1988
Describes a study that examined the ability of the dBase database management system to perform secondary key retrieval on multivalued data items. The results are presented as time cost relative to the number of matching records, and situations in which a different management system might be appropriate are identified. (CLB)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Database Management Systems, Evaluation Criteria, Indexing
