| 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 | 
"Alert: SQL/400 Available" (SAA PLANNING SERVICE, Alert# B039, Nov. 10, 1988) IBM announced the availability of the SQL/400 product which provides support for the SQL interface to the OS/400 relational data base system on AS/400 processors. AS/400 users can now begin making use of SQL for interacting with the OS/400's relational database. This makes the level of relational database interface consistent across IBM's SAA environments. IBM will add OS/400 support for distributed relation data access at the level currently defined by SAA, probably within the next 24 months. Other relational database vendors will announce SAA-compatible SQL support beginning next year.
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| 262.1 | Is it Real | BROKE::BOOTH | What am I?...An Oracle? | Thu Dec 08 1988 04:13 | 3 | 
|     It's my understanding that the SQL is read-only.
    
    ---- Michael Booth
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| 262.2 | Plenty of holes, for now. | CHECK::JANDERSON | Fri Dec 09 1988 18:53 | 8 | |
|     According to a Forrester report SQL/400 is only a subset of SAA
    SQL that sits on top of the AS/400 relational database. In another
    report by someone else (forget who) the AS/400 relational database
    is the same as the S38 "embedded" relational database.
    Forrester all stated that "if IBM cannot fully implement full SAA
    SQL on a new machine, how can it ever retrofit SAA SQL to older
    systems that will support SAA.
    Lots of holes, for now.
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