Re: Picture Support in the Database (was: Re: Ebay...)

[Mark Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Al,

At 08:27 AM 7/9/99 -0700, you wrote:

>Picture support is coming.

 This should be interesting.

>Because the brain-dead people at IBM feel that the holy grail of the world 
>is SQL, you will only be able to define these functions through SQL.

 Can someone (actually, many ones?) please inform the powers that be that
any new DB support must also be put into a native version?  This SQL-only
stuff is really getting annoying.  SQL has its place, but we should not be
forced to change our application implementation (and the other headaches
that go along with it, i.e. source management) in order to take advantage
of any new DB enhancements.

>If you save a database containing these features, you will not be able to 
>restore it to another V4R4 system unless it has the same PTFs.

 Sounds like they should have used previous version support.

 -mark

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