Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

In addition, see
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2433305,00.html for some other potential features in the next rev.

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 21:06:00 -0500, Larry Edelstein <lsedels_at_us.ibm.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>6.1 is good but the best is yet to come in V7 (or whatever they call the
>next release). The DB2 newsgroup has said that plans (although always
>subject to change) include:
>
>- a procedural stored procedure language
>- temporary tables
>- external savepoints
>- identity data type
>- nested stored procedures
>
>and much much more. Compatibility with the mainframe is always important
>and is getting closer and closer. From application, API, DDL, and DML
>perspective, that compatibility is pretty much there. In fact, some people
>use it on LAN platforms for development and target the mainframe for
>execution.
>
Received on Thu Feb 24 2000 - 00:00:00 CST