Re: Is SQL procedural or non-procedural?
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:04:24 GMT
Message-ID: <IcYjg.2943$oE3.2915_at_trndny04>
"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:lNTjg.322$Zk3.8867_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
> David Cressey wrote:
> Your comment about "how wrong I was" applies to the Oracle CBO, and not
> > necessarily to the CBO's of other products.
> > We've been talking past each other.
>
> Keep in mind that Paul is part of the Oracle borg. No other dbmses exist
> in his universe.
In that case, he should be aware that Oracle Corp. bought the rights to DEC
Rdb/VMS from DEC in October of 1994.
And, I am told by people who ought to know, that the DEC Rdb/VMS optimizer
had a strong infuence on the design of the first version of the CBO for