Re: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-26 Thread Don Granaman
I missed this part in my previous response... Does anyone remember why there never was a 9.1? We seem to have gone directly from 9.0.x to 9.2.0! [Did I miss somethng while taking a nap sometime recently?] Don Granaman [certifiable OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: Multiple

RE: RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-26 Thread Hately Mike
No there was never a 6.1 or a 6.2 unless I missed a meeting. The latest version of 6 I worked on was 6.0.37. Regards, Mike Hately -Original Message- Sent: 25 June 2002 18:09 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L There was a 6.1 and/or 6.2? I went from 6.0.36 straight to 7.2.

Re: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-26 Thread Nicolai Tufar
of list ORACLE-L Oggetto: RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS Also a bit about Larry luring IBM engeneers promising that they would become millionares with Oracle. He was right. [ Ferenc Mantfeld ] the surest way to have become a millionaire in the stock market over the last 2 years, was if you

Re: RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-26 Thread Nuno Souto
In fact, there was a 6.1. Lasted only less than a year. It was one of the very early Parallel Server versions available. Only ran on VMS, IIRC. At least, that's the only port of it I managed to install. Cheers Nuno Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - No there was never

Re: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-26 Thread Alexandre Gorbatchev
Maybe coz 9.2 sounds more reliable than 9.1 :) Alexandre - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 10:58 AM I missed this part in my previous response... Does anyone remember why there never was a 9.1? We seem to

RE: RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-26 Thread Hately Mike
Live and learn =) I wasn't using VMS at the time but all the same, I'm surprised I haven't heard about it. Many thanks, Mike -Original Message- Sent: 26 June 2002 11:18 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L In fact, there was a 6.1. Lasted only less than a year. It was one of the

RE: RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-26 Thread Stephane Faroult
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2002-06-26 Thread John . Hallas
Didn't Larry call you direct to let you know Mike?. Very inconsiderate of him -Original Message- Sent: 26 June 2002 11:44 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Live and learn =) I wasn't using VMS at the time but all the same, I'm surprised I haven't heard about it. Many thanks,

RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-26 Thread Robson, Peter
15:08 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS Oh you bunch of young whipper-snappers! A long time ago in a place far-away, we started with simple File Systems. Then came ISAM file systems. These begate DBMS systems. Note there was no 'R

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2002-06-26 Thread Hately Mike
I was quite upset myself. It's like he just doesn't care any more. You were a VMS bloke at one point; Didn't you use 6.1? =) Mike -Original Message- Sent: 26 June 2002 12:14 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Didn't Larry call you direct to let you know Mike?. Very

RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-26 Thread Brian McGraw
Would that be more unbreakable ??? -- | Brian McGraw /* DBA */ Infinity Insurance | | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- -Original Message- Gorbatchev Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 5:24 AM To: Multiple

Re: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-26 Thread Don Granaman
slowly standing - trembling, with creaks and pops as he rises Overlays in Turbo Pascal One of the more challenging aspects of writing Pro*C user exit code for Forms 2.3 on a DOS client running against an Oracle 5 database was trying to link 1,000 or so C functions (at one function per file for

RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Santosh Varma
full form i also knew. and also that all dbms have the features of rdbms also then, what is the difference ?? santosh -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marcello SavinoSent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 4:58 PMTo: Multiple recipients

Re: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Joe Testa
i give up the R, is that the difference? joe Santosh Varma wrote: could any body point me the difference(s) between DBMS and RDBMS ?? because in DBMS also as in RDBMS, we can related two or more tables..if a column exists in another table for relation ?? Thanks and regards, Santosh

Re: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Tripat Singh
DBMS is broad term, It covers Relational, heirarchical and network database management systems. Regards Tripat Singh - Original Message - From: Marcello Savino To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 4:58 PM Subject: R: Difference

Re: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Nicolai Tufar
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 3:18 PM Subject: RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS full form i also knew. and also that all dbms have the features of rdbms also then, what is the difference ?? santosh -Original Message

Re: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Alexandre Gorbatchev
Between DBMS/RDBMS full form i also knew. and also that all dbms have the features of rdbms also then, what is the difference ?? santosh -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marcello SavinoSent: Tuesday, June 25

RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Robson, Peter
-Original Message-From: Marcello Savino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 25 June 2002 12:28To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: R: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS DBMS =Data Base Management System RDBMS=Relational Data Base Management System But actually i

Re: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Yechiel Adar
in the mainframe world. Yechiel AdarMehish - Original Message - From: Santosh Varma To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 2:18 PM Subject: RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS full form i also knew. and also that all dbms have

RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Oh you bunch of young whipper-snappers! A long time ago in a place far-away, we started with simple File Systems. Then came ISAM file systems. These begate DBMS systems. Note there was no 'R' in original DBMS systems. Some of these were simply an extention to ISAM files that allowed (and

RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Santosh Varma
only fool's like you can point such differences...when not able to find valid differences. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 5:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L i give up the R, is that the difference? joe Santosh Varma wrote: could any body point me

RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ah yes, what newcomers to the computer age! The part I always find fascinating is that when the relational ideas were coming together around the time Codd made his 12 rules, the big question was: will a relational database ever be practical?. Another point is that there were many competitors to

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2002-06-25 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Erm, programmed at college on something called a Sinclair ZX80 Spectrum 1K ram !! -Original Message- Sent: 25 June 2002 15:58 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Tom, As I recall DB2 on a PC came about way back in the dark days of the 8080 processor and DOS (no version)

Re: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Eric D. Pierce
did you ever read a basic college level textbook on database technology? google search on codd date rdbms yielded the following: http://www.palslib.com/Fundamentals/The_Relational_Model.html enjoy, ep On 25 Jun 2002 at 1:48, Santosh Varma wrote: could any body point me the difference(s)

Re: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Joe Testa
Santosh, byte me. Since if you got off your a$$ and did some research you'd find out the differences. joe Santosh Varma wrote: only fool's like you can point such differences...when not able to find valid differences. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 5:54 PM To:

Re: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Nicolai Tufar
Oracle was the first commercial Realtional Database Management System. And it was relational from day one (version two :), and it was built with relational theory in mind. IBM was the first to implement RDBMS though. It was called System R, or something, later it became known as DB2. Take a

Re: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Charlie Mengler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...snip...] Yeah, it's good to be old and reflect on the twists turns we went through to make things work. Anyone remember programming with less than 1MB of ram? I remember trying to make things work on 16K. In 1967 I learned machine language programming

Re: RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Jan Pruner
I've used Atari 800XL (still have it). JP On Tuesday 25 June 2002 17:13, you wrote: Erm, programmed at college on something called a Sinclair ZX80 Spectrum 1K ram !! -Original Message- Sent: 25 June 2002 15:58 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Tom, As I recall

RE: RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Hately Mike
Heh, I started programming in PL/1 with DL/1 databases. All hierarchical and you had to navigate round the tree using calls like GN (get next) and GU (get unique). Oh the memories! Regards, Mike Hately __Reply Separator Author: Mercadante; Thomas F [EMAIL

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2002-06-25 Thread Sherman, Paul R.
Hello, I would have to look at my (very dusty) notes to check on the system attributes and other particulars, but I recall using a system called RAX (relational something something), running on a IBM mainframe (OS/MVS ?), in 1964, at the Univ. of R.I. The execute command was /end run. I can not

Re: RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Alexandre Gorbatchev
My Z-80 based PC had 64K (useful only 48). That was the standard architecture for Z80 4.77MHz 8-) -- Alexandre - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 5:13 PM Erm, programmed at college on something called a Sinclair

RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
In 1982 ANSI charged its X3H2 committee with defining a standard relational database. IBM became committed to SQL as the standard database language. The resultind ANSI standard is largly based on DB2 SQL. Dave -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 9:08 AM To: Multiple

RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS That's nothing. I use to bang the rocks together to make the sand from which the silicon was extracted that was used to create the first memory chips Jerry Whittle ACIFICS DBA NCI Information Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 618-622-4145

RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
A - but is a system truely Relational if they don't support foreign keys? That did not happen within Oracle-Land until release 7 (maybe it was in 6.2 - I forget). Anybody remember why there was never a release 6.1 - we went from 6.0 directly to 6.2??? Correct answer gets a virtual beer.

RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Ooh, someone needs a chill pill. I suggest when you are asking such a basic question you refrain from insulting one of the more respected members of this list. Regards Lee -Original Message- Sent: 25 June 2002 14:38 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L only fool's like you

RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Tom I don't have the book here at work, so I'm doing this from memory. IBM created an experimental relational database named System R, which is usually acknowledged as the first RDBMS. Being a large bureaucratic organization that was making a fortune on non-relational databases, IBM did

RE: RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Jesse, Rich
AFAIK, RDB was DEC's Relational offering and was only available on VAXen, and eventually Alphas. It was preceeded by DEC's CODASYL DBMS, known generically as DBMS. Perhaps IBM had an RDB, too, since the names are generic enough. I worked extensively with DEC's DBMS and COBOL in my first

RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Dave - And since Oracle had bet its company on the SQL language, it was well-positioned to ride that horse to victory. Ironic that for so many years it appears that Oracle reaped so much more benefit from SQL than IBM did. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

Re: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread mkb
Nicolai, Thank you very much. Very interesting paper. mkb --- Nicolai Tufar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oracle was the first commercial Realtional Database Management System. And it was relational from day one (version two :), and it was built with relational theory in mind. IBM was the

RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS Alexandre, CP/M. That brings back fond memories. Just last night I was looking for something in my attic and stumbled upon my first computer - an Amstrad PCW8256. If I remember correctly the 8 was for the Z80 chip and the 256 was the memory in KB

RE: RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Thomas Day
3K of RAM available on the VIC-20. The other 5K were taken up by the operating system. I had a terminal emulator program that allowed me to dial-up at 300 baud and run an IBM mainframe from home. Real bleeding-edge stuff at the time (LOL).

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2002-06-25 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
When the incompetent secretaries got mad about being replaced with computers, and their union got pissy about same, he fired them. this explains a lot! take no prisoners! bargain with no-one! :) -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 12:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of

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2002-06-25 Thread Thomas Day
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RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Dennis, I agree with everything you said - especially with regard to Oracle and how they developed. Larry saw the benefit of not being tied to one vendor and quickly changed his code-base to C to accomplish this. That, and the adherance to supporting SQL was the biggest selling point - plus,

Re: RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Jan Pruner
Well, I've found old benchmark from 01/1984 :-) http://www.gondolin.org.uk/hchof/reviews/text/yc-atari800xl.html JP On Tuesday 25 June 2002 17:58, you wrote: I've used Atari 800XL (still have it). JP On Tuesday 25 June 2002 17:13, you wrote: Erm, programmed at college on something called

Re: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Stephane Faroult
Mercadante, Thomas F wrote: Oh you bunch of young whipper-snappers! A long time ago in a place far-away, we started with simple File Systems. Then came ISAM file systems. These begate DBMS systems. Note there was no 'R' in original DBMS systems. Some of these were simply an extention to

RE: RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-25 Thread Jesse, Rich
Between DBMS/RDBMS 3K of RAM available on the VIC-20. The other 5K were taken up by the operating system. I had a terminal emulator program that allowed me to dial-up at 300 baud and run an IBM mainframe from home. Real bleeding-edge stuff at the time (LOL). -- Please see the official