Oracle Database

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SQL Database system

History

The first product Oracle RDBMS Version 2 was introduced in 1979 for PDP-11 under RSX-11. Oracle Version 3 from 1983 was a complete rewrite in C programming language. The company name changed from RSI to Oracle Corporation.

Oracle Version 4 (1984) was also ported to the IBM PC. Oracle Version 5 (1985) was the first DOS product that breaks through the 640K barrier by using extended memory.

Oracle Version 6 (1988) introduced many new features and was available for OS/2.

Oracle7 (1992) was fully compliant with the SQL89 ANSI/ISO SQL standard.

Database Access

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  • REXX/SQL - SQL access for REXX
  • RXORA - Oracle REXX Interface for OS/2
  • SQL*REXX - REXX library for Oracle 7 (Amtek Computing)