RE: BLOBs

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I thought it was Steve McQueen vs The Blob.

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com







>Has anyone notified the Pentagon ?     NASA ?          Bruce Willis ?
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Al Barsa, Jr. [SMTP:barsa2@ibm.net]
>Sent:  Thursday, November 12, 1998 5:54 PM
>To:    MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject:       Re: BLOBs
>
>At 11:53 AM 11/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>Does anybody have any idea when (if?) IBM will support BLOBs and
>>memo fields in DB2?  It's sort of a pain to convert Access or dBase
>>files without support for these data types.  In addition, modelling tools
>>like ErWin support them, but the 400 can't directly implement them yet.
>>
>IBM has stated publicly that BLOBS are coming.
>
>Al



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