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

Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > 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. Not for its time. What were the other options available for relational databases back in the 80's? -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)