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From: tp@mccall.com
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Rdb/VMS: Segmented strings in SQL?
Message-ID: <4.26cc2cba@mccall.com>
Date: 17 Aug 90 17:43:21 GMT
Organization: The McCall Pattern Co., Manhattan, KS, USA
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A while back I posted a bunch of questions about VMS database packages.
From the responses I came to the (apparently) erroneous conclusion that
VAX/Rdb supports segmented strings in SQL (I probably didn't read the
responses closely enough). 

I have finally received Rdb (version 3.1b from the July CONDIST CD-ROM
distribution), and looking through the manuals and release notes, it
appears that segmented strings are supported only in RDO (or RDML, or
whatever you'd use instead of SQL, which I haven't started reading about
yet). 

I'd like to use SQL (for portability), but I need segmented strings (for
polygon and curve data, if anyone cares). 

What's the story here? Is a new version that supports this imminent? Can I
mix RDO (or whatever), in a program that is mostly SQL? Can I get at the
segmented strings in any way at all in SQL (I was planning to use the
module language version)? (Help?)

I'm a complete novice when it comes to DBMS's, and am learning from the
manuals. There are 11 binders worth of manuals, and I need to know which
ones to read! :-)
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