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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by fauigerzigerk on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @12:29PM (#47589860)
MS SQL Server was forked from Sybase in 1993. Not sure how much the code had diverged by 2000. Informix was also a contender back then.
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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by minkeymaniac on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @03:08PM (#47592009)
7 was a rewrite, from c to c++, also went from 2k pages to 8k pages
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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by trueno on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @12:40PM (#47590017)
we still have an informix db for an old early 2000s application we have to support. shit runs on centos5 lmao. it's actually not too bad, around v12 there's cdc capabilities (requires you to build your own agent service to consume the data) that made the exercise of real time replicating the app db in our edw a cakewalk. which ironically has greatly extended the lifespan of the application since no one has to query informix anymore directly.

ibms docs and help sites suck butt tho.

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