[Info-vax] Rdb question

[Greg Tinkler]

> Yes, Ian. I slipped with my memory's more recently accessed Cricket ball tampering Aussie. 
Thought the name was sort of familiar, dam the sand-paper :-]
 
> By technical debt, I mean "legacy", "mothballed patch only", "on it's way to being deprecated",
That sort of has been the case for almost 30 years, but it is still there, and from a SQL point of view Rdb is in an ok place.  Ian has not been backward in adding new features, so not just patch only.
Does the engine need work, yup, as does OpenVMS internals..., and some of the limitations will be because Rdb is limited to OpenVMS.  Still the best database engine on OpenVMS.

Besides at $US40k/core Rdb (Oracle) is far too expensive for most sites.  Bring back Rdb runtime for free on OpenVMS I say.  Won't happen but a nice thought.

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