Oracle-L: RE: {SPAM?} RE: Teradata baned from IOUG???

From: Mercadante, Thomas F <NDATFM_at_labor.state.ny.us>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 04:53:55 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0054D70C.20030214045355@fatcity.com>

same product. and before MITI, it was owned by Sql Solutions.

I still think it was one of the coolest - and easiest - batch updating/reporting products on the market. I bought it and we converted about 750,000 lines of Cobol code to Oracle forms and SQR back in the late 80's early 90's. And Rachel, I remember the SQR RV in Miami in 91. Didn't they also rent a large boat for a party?

As far as I know, now it is used by SCT/Banner (college info software product). I'm sure you can buy it outright from someone, but it is hard to find.

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Hmmm - I wonder if we are talking about the same company? The SQR product I know of came out of a US company called MITI (Long Beach, CA), and was marketed in UK by SPS. It was originally a report writer for Oracle, but developed the programming side to such an extent that it became (like PL/SQL) a programming environment in its own right.

Is this the same one that was bought by Sybase? Is it still owned by them?

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I believe SQR was bought by Sybase.... so Oracle didn't want it at the conference.

I remember IOUW in Miami (in '91 I think).... SQR had an RV outside the conference hotel because they were not on the exhibit floor

"Robson, Peter" <pgro_at_bgs.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> <snip>
>
> Teradata would not be the first product banned. Way back in
> olden-times the
> maker of SQR were banned, but I cannot remember why.
>
> <snip>
>
> Well, I can answer that. SQR began life as a report writer with
> procedural
> capabilities. It arrived before PL/SQL, and was the first 4GL which
> provided
> procedural processing of Oracle data. Even after PL/SQL arrived, our
> local
> Oracle contacts confirmed SQR to be far superior... and as for
> comparing
> Oracle's report writer with SQR - oh please...
>
> peter
>
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