Re: Trying to decide whether to support DB2 or Oracle

On Sun, 6 May 2001, The Nomad wrote:

> DB2 Negatives

 <....>
> 3) DB2's SQL functions are extremely weak. That is, when coding an SQL
> function, you are allowed only a "return" statement. That's it - no
> conditional logic, no cool stuff. Fixpack 3 may address this somewhat.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that this statement applies only when coding user-defined functions (UDFs) in SQL specifically, not when coding UDFs in other supported languages.

> Marc

• Nick Geovanis | IT Computing Svcs Our revenge will be the laughter | Northwestern Univ of our children. | n-geovanis_at_nwu.edu - Bobby Sands +------------------->