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From: exnirad@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Nirad Sharma)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: IBM's ?Sylvia? for DB2 - Info wanted
Keywords: IBVM
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.231937.13715@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>
Date: 11 Apr 91 23:19:37 GMT
Organization: Prentice Computer Centre, The University of Queensland, Australia.
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I was recently talking to an IBM rep who mentioned to me that they had a
product by the name of Sylvia which allowed DB2 databases to be queried by
users without having to know the underlying relational structure.  I assume
it joined tables automatically on the basis of a metaschema,  finds the most
efficient combination of tables to use,  basic statistical optimisation, etc.
At least that's what the library I just wrote does.  I'd like to get some
information on this product of IBM's so that I can do some basic comparisons.

Any form of information would be appreciated - e-mail, snailmail, fax, anything!
(Anyone from IBM reading this ?)

Thanks for any information.
-- 
Nirad Sharma  (exnirad@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au)		Phone : (+61 7) 365 7575
Systems Programmer					Fax :	(+61 7) 870 5080
Continuing Education Unit
The University of Queensland.  QLD  4072