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

Mark Townsend said: >> On the other hand, Oracle did not have such excellent tools for data >> management and manipulation as external entities (neither did DB2, >> Sybase or >> Ingres for that matter so this is not an indictment of Oracle), so they >> chose >> a different path and created PL/SQL as a full fledged programming >> language. >> > I'm sure they weren't as polished as Perform and Ace, but Oracle also > had Forms (SQL*Forms) and Reporting tools (SQL*Rpt) available long > before PL/SQL became available in the engine (Oracle 7). Also Pro*COBOL, > Pro*Fortran etc for embedded SQL. It wasn't a lack of supporting tools > that drove the development of PL/SQL. I'm not sure I'd count SQL*Report as a tool. "Waste of space", maybe, but not a tool. -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche "I'm trying to see things your way, but I can't get my head up my ass" - JCH "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo" - Marco http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html sending to informix-list