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From: tim@binky.sybase.com (Tim Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: DB Procedures (Was: Client/Server processes and implementations)
Keywords: Database Procedures, SQL
Message-ID: <7239@sybase.sybase.com>
Date: 28 Nov 89 18:23:01 GMT
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In article <4167@rtech.rtech.com> brunjes@rtech.UUCP (roy brunjes) writes:
>In article <7189@sybase.sybase.com> coop@phobos.UUCP (John Cooper) writes:
>...
>>I believe Sybase is the only RDBMS that has stored procedures....
>
>Nope.  Not quite true.  INGRES has offered stored DB procedures for quite some
>time now (since V 6.1), 

Granted.  

>and in fact, with V 6.3 (recently announced) you can
>add rules that are automatically invoked when the affected column of a given
>table is written to (via insert, update, or delete SQL statement).  You are
>not limited to the number of rules you can specify for a table.

>This is just one of MANY new features in V 6.3 of INGRES -- [ product
> slogan deleted ]

In general, it is not appropriate to take a selling tone in comp.databases
articles.  This is a technical forum.  If you think Ingres is good,
please show it in substance by discussing its features and comparing
them with other vendors' implementations of those features. 

For example, Sybase has had both rules and stored procedures for 2 1/2
years.  Rules can be bound to table columns or datatypes.  I'm
interested in how Ingres rules work versus Sybase rules and triggers.  
Anyone care to explain?  Etc.

We can already read advertising in sales brochures and the full-page 
trade-rag advertisements.

>
>Roy Brunjes
>INGRES Corp.

-TW

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