Re: Good News for MS Windows users: Your favorite database is here..

On Sun, 20 May 2001 08:27:43 -0400, Blair Kenneth Adamache <adamache_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote:

>DB2 is the same code base on all versions of Windows (95 through 2000), AIX,
>Solaris, HP-UX, NUMA-Q and OS/2. There are three other DB2 code bases (390, AS/400
>and VM/VSE). 4 code bases is not "zillions".

2 is too many. And let's not go into why the heck VM/VSE code has to be different from other code in the same series mainframe hardware (390).

>Each RDBMS vendor has an additional
>code base kicking around (Oracle has RDB, Sybase has SQL Anywhere, and Microsoft has
>Access and Foxpro) -

You gotta be joking! Or else you know squat about Oracle. Oh, you think Access and Foxpro are one and the same thing. You see, other vendors call different products by different names. At IBM apparently anything that reads "database" gets labelled DB2...

>at least IBM has aligned DML across the platforms.
>

RTFM for Oracle. It's the same code, DML and DDL all over the place. Always has been, always will be. And no amount of "semantics" from IBM is gonna change that.

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_bigpond.net.au.nospam
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html Received on Sun May 20 2001 - 12:06:30 CDT