Dave,
  Great idea. I seem to recall the Image Enchilada project was spawned
trying to allow a user implemented way to do these type of things.  The
problem is picking a standard way to implement these add-ons.  Certainly
building shells around the calls is doable, but a generic mechanism that
everyone would be able to enhance/utilize would be preferred.

  Put me on your list of  collaborators (conspirators?)!

RAT
 

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Darnell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 9:27 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Expensive RDBM Systems (Oracle)


Seems to me that one could write a "shell" of intrinsics and utilities to
give everything except the  VARSTRING feature, while still retaining all
Image functionality, without changing Image.

Who wants to collaborate?

-Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Dirickson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 9:18 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Expensive RDBM Systems (Oracle)
>
>
> > What features do see lacking in IMAGE?
>
> Integration with the host OS's identification/authentication system
> Repeatable-Read Isolation level
> Triggers
> Currency data type
> Non-NULL enforcement
> For that matter, type enforcement in general
> Date/time data type(s)
> Stored Procedures
> DDL to allow script-driven database modifications
> Distributed transactions
> Variable-length text ("memo") fields
> ...
>
> None of these are particularly tied to the "relational-ness"
> or "SQL-ness"
> of the competition; I expect that Image could provide all of these
> capabilities. But it doesn't.
>