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MySQL 5.0 Preview: still no sequences

MySQL 5.0 Preview: still no sequences

Posted Feb 9, 2004 20:45 UTC (Mon) by leandro (guest, #1460)
In reply to: MySQL 5.0 Preview: still no sequences by shane
Parent article: MySQL 5.0 Preview

> they were the first platform-independent SQL server

In fact they were the first, period. Larry Elison launched Oracle from IBM's System R papers even before IBM itself had a product.

This 'merit' is more of a function of them not being hardware vendors, just like Microsoft in the OS field.


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