Can an APL workspace be used as a data base?

Experience from applications that use <italic>APL</italic> workspaces as data storage is reported. Different design decisions are discussed with illustrations of how <italic>APL</italic> is exploited. The final design, which achieves an utter simplicity of data representation, is described, with examples of usage. This simplicity allows a developer to concentrate on data manipulation, where the power of <italic>APL</italic> is at its best, rather than on storage techniques.