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From: whm@sunquest.UUCP (Bill Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: RDBMSs that can handle binary data?
Message-ID: <157@sunquest.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 01:46:06 GMT
Organization: Sunquest Information Systems, Tucson
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We have a need for a database that can handle binary data of arbitrary
length.  We've looked at Oracle, Ingres, Sybase, Informix, and Unify, and Unify
is the only suitable one we've found thus far.  We've recently learned that
Empress may have the capabilities that we require and we're in the process of
obtaining literature on it.

Are there any RDBMSs other than Unify and (possibly) Empress that can handle
binary data of arbitrary length (in addition to doing all the other good
stuff you typically expect from a RDBMS)?
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