Haha, my SGA has been swapped out to disk at this moment. So I take a break. :)
-----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 5:37 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Some of the features Oracle embraced from RDB: Cost Based Optimizer Statistics (of course!) Oracle Trace (not sql_trace, Oracle Trace) That's all the room I have in my SGA at this moment and I dare not flush! Arup ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 5:14 PM > From memory: Many moons ago, DEC sold RDB off to Oracle. RDB shops were > told by Oracle that their license/maintence fees would double or triple for > RDB in an effort to migrate them to Oracle. Many said "bite me". In the > meantime, Oracle took much of the cool stuff from RDB and incorporated it > into Oracle DB. I don't remember specific features anymore, but the > combination gave us Oracle7. > > One of the best features that Oracle Corp declined to migrate is RDB's > concept of SQLMODs. SQLMODs are a language-independant module of your SQL > whose SQL routines are called by your 3GL (COBOL, BASIC, C, FORTRAN, etc). > All that's needed is a separate "compiler" to create an object module from > the SQLMOD. Then that SQLMOD can be linked with your 3GL object mod to > create the .EXE. Brilliant! Instead, we're left with Oracle's icky > language-specific pre-compilers. Blecchh. > > Rich > > Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tony Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 3:25 PM > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > Subject: RE: Oracle ambushes Peoplesoft with $5.1bn bid > > > > > > RDB was developed by DEC and was purchased by Oracle. When I > > 1ast saw it in depth 10 years ago it wqas quite nice. From > > what I also understand that the Cost Based Optimizer from 8i > > and on was part of RDB replacing the 7i Oracle developed version. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 12:40 PM > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > > > > And what exactly is RDB to Oracle RDBMS? Predecessor? > > > > Mladen Gogala > > Oracle DBA > > Phone:(203) 459-6855 > > Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 1:04 PM > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > > > > What's really interesting is the quote from Larry indicating > > that PeopleSoft will be to Oracle Apps what RDB is to Oracle RDBMS. > > > > Take all the goodies, no development on the purchased technology. > > > > Not sure if it appears in this arcticle, I saw it on Zdnet. > > > > Jared > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Jesse, Rich > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Arup Nanda INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Richard Ji INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
