Re: Oracle History??

joel-garry_at_home.com (Joel Garry) wrote in message news:<91884734.0211221727.cba3d32_at_posting.google.com>...
> "Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:<WSHC9.80398$g9.226171_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com>...
> > Looks perfect, Mark. Thanks so much.
> >
> > I'd thank Richard, too, of course, but the signal to noise (ie, Oracle to
> > Bowie) ratio was too high to make much sense of it all. ;-)
>
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/068816353X/qid=1038014234/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-5341632-1172907?v=glance&s=books
>
> >
> > Regards
> > HJR
> >
> > "Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend_at_attbi.com> wrote in message
> > news:BA00777C.2C1C%markbtownsend_at_attbi.com...
> > >
> > > http://www.osborne.com/products/0072192798/0072192798_ch01.pdf
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> Supply _Change_ Management? Don't they mean Supply _Chain_
> Management?
>
> Also, they put in qualifiers, like "the first dbms to work on

> Mainframes and Minicomputers," and "the first SQL" whatever, as if
> that is some kind of great thing. In the early to mid '80s there were
> several superior languages to SQL, and Oracle was by no means the best

Like what? I'm apparently becoming old and can't remember any DB language superior to SQL. BTW, IBM was actually first to create relational DB based on SQL (project R), but initially they decided against developing in further into marketable product. AFAIK Larry Ellison was working for IBM then... May be he's got some ideas.

> system for any particular purpose. Like IBM, the greatness, if you
> want to call it that, was in the marketing and financials. So what if
> Star could join db's in New York and SF - in the mid-80's, I saw a
> language that could join between different DBMS's!

SQL can do it. There is no restrictions on phisical location of tables in the language definition. True, it wasn't realized until Oracle 6 (I might be wrong, correct me if so), but it's not language restriction, it was an implementation restriction.

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> Harumph.
>
> jg
Received on Sun Nov 24 2002 - 16:22:11 CST