A Brief History Of DB2 And SQL

• A Brief History Of DB2 And SQL

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  Carl Eric Johnson - click to view profile

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  Relational database management systems are ubiquitous, yet they are relative newcomers to database technology. This show presents the history of SQL and DB2, from its inception as System R at IBM Labs, to its acceptance by all the major RDBMS vendors. Are there differences between DB2 and Oracle? To be sure, yet not nearly as many as there might have been, had SQL not been adopted as a standard cross-platform language. Learn this and more in this informative show