[Info-vax] Other than Oracle, What MySQL/DBMS options are there for OpenVms?

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Tue Mar 26 12:59:43 EDT 2019


On 3/26/2019 12:41 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 3/26/2019 7:59 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> And you must also look at the features that Rdb has that are not
>>> available in other database (available on or as a client from VMS).
>>> Such as the high stability and availabilty, the ease of use, the
>>> high integration with VMS and VMS compilers.
>>
>> I believe that companies actually manage to run high stability
>> and availabilty databases on other platforms.
> 
> Belief and reality are not the same thing.

No.

But it is an observable fact that a very large number of companies
using database for critical data without VMS seems to do business fine.

>> And embedded SQL is not the current trend in database access
>> technology.
> 
> Trends are not always good.

True.

But trends have a business impact anyway.

Arne




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