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  1. Newsgroups: comp.databases
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!sethg
  3. From: sethg@dcatlas.dot.gov (Seth Grimes)
  4. Subject: BLOB handling by commercial DBMSes
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug30.160020.15217@dcatlas.dot.gov>
  6. Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
  7. Distribution: comp
  8. Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 16:00:20 GMT
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  11. The recent Informix/Oracle debate included an offhand comment on 
  12. Informix's handling of BLOBs.  How developed is this capability?
  13. What size BLOBs and is the handling integrated into the DB server
  14. kernel?  What about competing commercial RDBMSes like Oracle,
  15. Sybase, Ingres and others?
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  17. Seth Grimes, dcatlas!sethg@uunet.uu.net
  18. Automated Sciences Group (U.S. Dept. of Transportation)
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