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From: miket@blia.BLI.COM (Mike Tossy)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: SQL PreCompilers
Message-ID: <12268@blia.BLI.COM>
Date: 6 Aug 90 18:08:47 GMT
References: <319.26b9b861@usgcdh.uucp>
Organization: Britton Lee, Los Gatos, CA
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In article <319.26b9b861@usgcdh.uucp>, setas01@usgcdh.uucp writes:

> I agree that there has been much hype in this area.  In fact, there
> is only one DBMS on the mini-market (VAX/VMS, UNIX) that has this
> capability:  CA-DB from Computer Associates.  ...

ShareBase also has this capability.

>                                             ...  As a consequence,
> it is the fastest DBMS on the market when using ANSI embedded SQL
						  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> in standard programming languages which is an extremely important
> factor in portability.  All the "big" vendors seem to be saying that
> if you need high performance, you should lock your future into their
> product (this may sound like bashing, but it is very annoying to see
> marrketing hype from companies espousing Standards as well as open
> architecture)!

I think you are engaged in exactly the kind of marketing hype that you
find annoying.  There is an ANSI SQL validation test suite available from
the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); has CA passed it?
I find the tone of your paragraph very annoying. 


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