Solving Complex Database Problems in P-STAT

At the 13th Interface, six different packages submitted their solutions to four problems designed by Robert F. Teitel — two each for two different data bases. P-STAT proved to be very well suited for handling these problems. The tasks involving the first data base required only a single pass through the system data file even in the standard version of P-STAT. The problems involving the second data base were also easy to do in standard P-STAT even though they required several passes of the file. However, these problems could also be done in a single pass when the file was built using P-STAT’s new P-RADE database enhancement.