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From: naomi@qip.UUCP (Naomi Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Which DB's have BLOBS on VMS besides SYBASE
Summary: Informix supports BLOBS
Keywords: BLOBS
Message-ID: <5495@qip.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 90 15:23:20 GMT
References: <17273@hydra.gatech.EDU> <2011@shodha.enet.dec.com>
Organization: Anasazi, Inc., Phoenix Az.
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In article <2011@shodha.enet.dec.com> devine@shodha.enet.dec.com (Bob Devine) writes:
>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


Informix started supporting BLOB's with their Online release, earlier 
this year. Blobs can be of the text or binary variety. As for support,
I found it difficult to find someone at Informix that had actually used
BLOBs. We are now successfully using text BLOB's for message delivery
without any problems.










Naomi
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  Naomi Walker  (aka N7FSA)
  Anasazi Inc.  Phoenix, Arizona 602-953-4428

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