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

At 12:14 AM 7/11/99, you wrote:
>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.
That's exactly what I was driving for in asking it to be called V4R1.

Al




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