Re: Why there is no controlfile in Informix like Oracle ?

On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 19:31:21 -0400, Daniel Morgan wrote: > Obnoxio The Clown wrote: >> Daniel Morgan said: >> >>>Obnoxio The Clown wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Mark Townsend said: >>>> <SNIP> >> Your bias is showing. By "relational databases", I assume you mean >> "Oracle", because Informix had Ace and 4GL back in the 80s, Unify had >> Accell, etc. Last time I looked (which was probably in the 90s), SQL*Report >> didn't run on anything but Oracle, and that, only badly. > > Bias? In the 80's I was doing nothing but Cobol. The point is you criticized > a tools made specifically for working with a relational database. Doing so > must be done in context. The context was that it was pretty much the only > game in town. Just for historical completeness, I should mention that before Oracle, before Ingres, even before DB2; there was RIM. The very first implementation of Codd's RDBMS description was built by Grumman for the Air Force and placed in the public domain. Of course RIM never was a commercial product, though MicroRIM eventually appeared in the PC realm based on some of the same source IB, and it had even fewer tools than Sybase if you can believe it. Art S. Kagel