Re: HP Stimulus Package

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

As with most things, the sort sequence can be handled by the i. No problem...

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:07 PM, McKown, John
<John.Mckown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What a pile of fecal material!
>
> <quote>
> data and business process have become locked into the proprietary,
> low-level structures of the DB2/400 database.
> ...
> The DB2/400 database will be seamlessly replaced with Oracle.
> </quote>
>
> Gee, stupid little me didn't realize the Oracle was "not proprietary".
> When did it go "open"? I don't know DB2/400 or Oracle very well, but DB2
> has most, if not all, of the standard Oracle features.
>
> However, it __will__ stimulate the economy. After all, the company will
> likely replace "n" people with at least "1.5*n" people after conversion!
>
> One thing never mention on any of these conversions is the
> sort-sequence. At the very least, some reports will change because in
> EBCDIC the digits (0..9) sort __after__ alphabetic characters whereas in
> ASCII or Unicode, they sort __before__ alphabetic characters. OK, this
> is a bit of a "nit", but I've had end users scream about things even
> more minor.
>
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