I remember RDB on the VAX. It was simple, primitive, and
come to think of it, faster than SQL-Server using cursors.
Very basic features, but it worked. VAX C was easy too, even
using VAX curses-library was interesting, but I could never
grasp an idea of where I was on VMS, directories just didn't
seem to be relevant...
"Haider Rizvi" <haider_at_nouce.ca.ibm.com> wrote in message news:7zsmd7nf1h.fsf_at_thinkhr.torolab.ibm.com...
> Noons <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam> writes:
>
> > Even Oracle admits RDB is a "hierarchical db" and doesn't have
> > the nerve to call it relational!
>
> Are you sure about that? I believe RDB originally stood for "relational
> database".
>
> From http://www.oracle.com/rdb/
>
> "Oracle Rdb is a full-featured, relational database management system for
> mission-critical applications on OpenVMS platforms.
>
> <misc stuff deleted>
>
> The Oracle Rdb family of products also includes Oracle CODASYL DBMS (a
> network data model database system), Oracle CDD/Repository (for managing
> meta data), and Oracle Trace."
>
> Were you thinking CODASYL as above? Even that is not an hierarchical
> database!
>
>
> Regards,
> --
> Haider
Received on Mon Jun 07 2004 - 19:09:41 CDT
