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From: devine@shodha.enet.dec.com (Bob Devine)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Which DB's have BLOBS on VMS besides SYBASE
Summary: Rdb does
Keywords: BLOBS
Message-ID: <2011@shodha.enet.dec.com>
Date: 19 Nov 90 20:00:18 GMT
References: <17273@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp. - Colorado Springs, CO.
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In article <17273@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt8963a@prism.gatech.EDU (MCCARTNEY,JEFFREY ELWOOD) writes:
> I'm searching for mature DB's that have BLOBS (datatypes that handle images,etc)
> on the VMS operating system.  I'd also be interested as to what programming
> languages they interface with.  
> And also how long (time and releases) the blob feature has been out.

Rdb/VMS has had BLOBs for some time now.  The are called "segmented
strings".  A DEC-internal group has been using them for images for
some time now.

Bob Devine