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title: "Replace: An Archive Utility"
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published_at: "2026-02-07T14:28:59+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-02-07T14:30:26+00:00"
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excerpt: "Database systems and database oriented software play an increasingly important role in personal computing. Computers are fantastic for sorting and using information, tasks that database systems are specifically designed for. When you purchased your QL you received a well designed and powerful database system in ARCHIVE."
category:
  - name: "International QL Report"
    slug: "international-ql-report"
    taxonomy: "category"
    url: "http://localhost/category/periodicals/international-ql-report/"
post_tag:
  - name: "QL"
    slug: "ql"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/ql/"
  - name: "Type-in program"
    slug: "type-in-program"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/type-in-program/"
model:
  - name: "Sinclair QL"
    slug: "sinclair-ql"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/sinclair-ql/"
indiv:
  - name: "Bill Cable"
    slug: "bill-cable"
    taxonomy: "indiv"
    url: "http://localhost/indiv/bill-cable/"
publication_r:
  id: 33740
  title: "International QL Report"
  type: "periodical"
  url: "http://localhost/periodical/international-ql-report/"
authors_r:
  - name: "Bill Cable"
    slug: "bill-cable"
    taxonomy: "indiv"
    url: "http://localhost/indiv/bill-cable/"
volume: "1"
issue: "4"
issues_articles:
  - id: 37187
    title: "International QL Report V1 I4"
    type: "issue"
    url: "http://localhost/issue/international-ql-report-v1-i4/"
pages: "2-7"
pubdate: "November/December 1991"
archive_link: false
---

# Replace: An Archive Utility

Database systems and database oriented software play an increasingly important role in personal computing. Computers are fantastic for sorting and using information, tasks that database systems are specifically designed for. When you purchased your QL you received a well designed and powerful database system in ARCHIVE.