[Info-vax] Rdb question

[Richard Maher]

On 29/07/2022 10:15 am, Greg Tinkler wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> gt

Look, the game's over :-(

Was Rdb technical elegance? Sure!

There's lots to dislike about Orrible Oracle, but shit like Cache 
Fusion, RLAC/Fine-Grained security, sheer weight of numbers and SQL 
Server is still brilliant.

VGI should have sold their mother to get Oracle continued on VMS!!! :-(

For those of us still dreaming; that my friends, was the death knell.