Re: oracle has customers over a barrel

From: Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:52:49 -0400
Message-ID: <7gus0jF2rblcaU1_at_mid.individual.net>



Captain Pedantic wrote:
>
> "Serge Rielau" <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote in message
> news:7guq1bF2r6kklU1_at_mid.individual.net...
>> DBA wrote:
>>> http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_38/b4147052120632.htm
>> There are those who bicker and those who act.
>> So many new friends these days. :-)
>> http://www.channeldb2.com/video/enabling-applications-from

>
> DB2 supports Oracle SQL PL/SQL out of the box?
> Really?
> DB2 the mainframe database ...?
>
>

DB2 9.7 for LUW, yes, not all of it, but enough to do "exception based" tweaks rather than redesign.
In the coming fixpack we'll even do BULK COLLECT and FORRALL. There is a developerworks article written by myself outlining what's supported:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-0907oracleappsondb2/

Cheers
Serge

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Serge Rielau
SQL Architect DB2 for LUW
IBM Toronto Lab
Received on Fri Sep 11 2009 - 06:52:49 CDT

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