RE: {SPAM?} RE: Teradata baned from IOUG???

From: Robson, Peter <pgro_at_bgs.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 03:43:48 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0054D5D0.20030214034348@fatcity.com>

Hmmm - I wonder if we are talking about the same company? The SQR product I know of came out of a US company called MITI (Long Beach, CA), and was marketed in UK by SPS. It was originally a report writer for Oracle, but developed the programming side to such an extent that it became (like PL/SQL) a programming environment in its own right.

Is this the same one that was bought by Sybase? Is it still owned by them?

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I believe SQR was bought by Sybase.... so Oracle didn't want it at the conference.

I remember IOUW in Miami (in '91 I think).... SQR had an RV outside the conference hotel because they were not on the exhibit floor

• "Robson, Peter" <pgro_at_bgs.ac.uk> wrote:
  >
  >
  > <snip>
  >
  > Teradata would not be the first product banned. Way back in
  > olden-times the
  > maker of SQR were banned, but I cannot remember why.
  >
  > <snip>
  >
  > Well, I can answer that. SQR began life as a report writer with
  > procedural
  > capabilities. It arrived before PL/SQL, and was the first 4GL which
  > provided
  > procedural processing of Oracle data. Even after PL/SQL arrived, our
  > local
  > Oracle contacts confirmed SQR to be far superior... and as for
  > comparing
  > Oracle's report writer with SQR - oh please...
  >
  > peter
  >
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