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

We looked at SQR in 94.

We didn't have need of controlling fonts and such, which I guess SQR is good at.

The SQR rep could come up with no compelling reason to use SQR rather than Perl, so simple ( as in not much procedural processing needed ) reports were done in Sqlplus. Anything complex was done in Perl.

We never regretted that decision.

Jared

On Friday 14 February 2003 04:53, Mercadante, Thomas F wrote:
> same product. and before MITI, it was owned by Sql Solutions.
>
> I still think it was one of the coolest - and easiest - batch
> updating/reporting products on the market. I bought it and we converted
> about 750,000 lines of Cobol code to Oracle forms and SQR back in the late
> 80's early 90's. And Rachel, I remember the SQR RV in Miami in 91. Didn't
> they also rent a large boat for a party?
>
> As far as I know, now it is used by SCT/Banner (college info software
> product). I'm sure you can buy it outright from someone, but it is hard to
> find.
>
>
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>
> 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?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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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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