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Conference ulysse::rdb_vms_competition

Title:DEC Rdb against the World
Moderator:HERON::GODFRIND
Created:Fri Jun 12 1987
Last Modified:Thu Feb 23 1995
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1348
Total number of notes:5438

23.0. "A Guide to Ingres" by VNASWS::GEROLD (You're my favourite waste of time !) Mon Aug 24 1987 10:04

I've just got myself a book from C.J.Date called "A Guide to Ingress"
printed in 1987 ( so it should be fairly up-to-date ).

I'm quite willing to look up things for you if you have special questions
*AND* it will not get too frequent.

The book features :

	1)INGRES: A relational system
	2)System Structure
	3)Data Definition
	4)Retrieval Operations
	5)Update Operations
	6)The Data Dictionary
	7)Views
	8)Security and Integrity
	9)Transaction Processing
       10)Embedded QUEL
       11)INGRES/SQL
       12)Storage Structure
       13)INGRES System Commands
       14)Visual Programming
       15)INGRES/MENU
       16)INGRES/QUERY
       17)INGRES/FORMS
       18)INGRES/REPORTS
       19)INGRES/GRAPHICS
       20)INGRES/APPLICATIONS
       21)INGRES/STAR

When I've read the book, I will place some comments in this notesfile.

Happy competing,

	Gerold
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23.1VNASWS::GEROLDYou're my favourite waste of time !Thu Sep 03 1987 13:5211
On request of the moderator ( it was a good idea anyway ) I post the
following additional info here :

Publisher is ADDISON-WESLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY. The ISBN is 
0-201-06006-X.

I've now read the book. It is *VERY* good to get an idea what INGRES is
about. In short I would say that with RALLY we are at least as good as
they are.

Gerold
23.2MINDER::PICKERINGTue Oct 06 1987 12:4514
    Gerold, I think Date has done too many 'cuts & pastes' between his
    many books! Throughout the book he uses an example for a Table S
    defining field SNAME as CHAR(20) & NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT. He should
    have used C20 for CHAR(20); Ingres does not support nulls, WITH
    DEFAULT is a DB2 clause. V6 of Ingres will correct the first two
    pts.
    
    And how about this for causing confusion. The Ingres/SQL reference
    manual has the following...
    
    'If an option provides a + or - choice before the name, the + sign
    means to turn the option on and the - sign means to turn if off.
    If only a - is shown before the name, specification of the - will
    turn the option on.'
23.3VNASWS::GEROLDYou're my favourite waste of time !Fri Oct 09 1987 14:496
You' re absolutely right.

I hope he gets at least the features and non-features right if not the
syntax.

	Gerold