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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: {SPAM?} RE: Teradata baned from IOUG???
I think so... Matt Reagan used to run the SQR roundtable discussions at
IOUG back when SQR was allowed on-site
Don't know who owns it now, I could try to ask Matt -- he'd have all the background and history on it
Rachel
--- "Robson, Peter" <pgro_at_bgs.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: 14 February 2003 10:59
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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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