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From: wallis@ivogus.dec.com (Barry Wallis @IVO)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: RDBMSs that can handle binary data?
Message-ID: <8812231310.AA24821@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 23 Dec 88 13:10:05 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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In article <157@sunquest.UUCP> whm@sunquest.UUCP (Bill Mitchell) writes:
>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, 
 
Rdb/VMS for the VAX can handle this.  We use segmented strings. Each segmented
string is made up of an arbitrary number of vectors which are linked
together. Each vector can contain up to 64K of unformatted data. 

This discussion assumes that you have a lnaguage which can perform operations on
binary data of arbitrary length.  Is that true? 
 
 
- Barry L. Wallis
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- Irvine, CA