I think also the bitmap stuff came from the guys with full beards (not full bears, as I wrote earlier).

Richard Ji wrote:
Haha, my SGA has been swapped out to disk at this moment.
So I take a break. :)

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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


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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
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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.

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And what exactly is RDB to Oracle RDBMS? Predecessor?

Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
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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
      
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