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From: greggy@infmx.UUCP (greg yachuk)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: RDBMSs that can handle binary data?
Message-ID: <703@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 88 01:18:31 GMT
References: <157@sunquest.UUCP> <40642319.104d5@apollo.COM>
Reply-To: greggy@infmx.UUCP (greg yachuk)
Organization: Informix, Menlo Park, Ca. U.S.A.
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In article <40642319.104d5@apollo.COM> peterson_s@apollo1.UUCP (Steve Peterson) writes:
>                                          InterBase has a data type
>called a BLOB(Basic Large OBject) that is of arbitrary length ...
	  ^^^^
Funny, that's what ours (Informix') is (or will be) called.  Except
ours stands for Binary Large OBject.  Of course, ours isn't shipping
yet...

Maybe we can have a look'n'feel war. :-)

	-greg

Greg Yachuk	Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA	(415) 322-4100
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