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From: mdeltoro@druco.ATT.COM (DeltoroMA)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Empress info wanted
Summary: Great database
Message-ID: <4923@druco.ATT.COM>
Date: 2 Jul 90 18:13:00 GMT
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Reply-To: mdeltoro@druco.ATT.COM (DeltoroMA)
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I have used EMPRESS for over three years and worked
with ORACLE for 7 months.  If I had to choose between the
two, I would select EMPRESS hands-down !!  It has excellent
4GL's - M-BUILDER and M-WRITER.  These tools are powerful and
very easy to use.  It's SQL implemention conforms to ANSI 
standards and offers some nice additions.

The biggest problem with EMPRESS is that is does not offer
a viable ESQL interface.  As of release 3.x, all ESQL code
had to be placed into one module.  Evidently, EMPRESS is 
correcting this restriction in the release 4.0.

Overall, EMPRESS is an excellent RDBMS.  The major problem with it is
name recognition.

I never realized how good EMPRESS is until I used ORACLE.
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Michael 'DT' Del Toro, Consultant                         303-538-1764
Analysts International Corporation
Presently at AT+T Bell Labs, 120th + Huron, Denver, CO