Re: RDBMS : Do we still live in 20th century?

After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_exxesolutions.com> belched out...:
> Valentin Tihomirov wrote:
>
>> It is much more convenient to define a type of a column selecting
>> it from a combo box of possible types. I create tables only once,
>> fill them with columns, set attributes for the columns. Then I set
>> relations between fields of different tables. There is absolutely
>> no need to program these scripts again and again for every
>> table. Why none of the modern RDBMS I know about do not provide the
>> functionality like MS Enterprise Manager does?
>
> Take your gasoline and go start a fire somewhere else.

> Oh and while you are doing it ... ask Bill why he runs his SAP
> accounting system on Oracle.

I seem to recall the original R/3 project at Microsoft being on DB/2 and OS/400, back in '96/'97, which was followed up by them migrating to Microsoft's port of Sybase SQL Server on some insanely large array of Intel boxes.

After all, SAP supported DB/2 _long_ before it supported Oracle...

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