[Info-ingres] What is like the Ingres that I remember?

[metalworker.mike at gmail.com]

Roy, thanks so much for the reply.  So Ingres is still the same?  That's wild.  It still amazes me how little real trouble I had building that system with PC-Ingres.  It processed thousands of items per day and accumulated them for years.  When I was almost done my bosses took me to one of Mr. Stonebreaker's conferences, and I met him briefly, and he seemed surprised that anyone was using PC-Ingres for a production system.

As for the Quel vs. SQL thing, I originally chose Quel because, as I dimly recall, SQL at the time didn't deal well with relational retrievals.  You couldn't retrieve a record from one table based on information in another, matched up by the TID, or whatever.  I'm sure it can do it now, but my recollection is that at the time you had to build a view to make the two (three, whatever) tables look like one table, so that SQL could deal with it.  Quel dealt with it easily.  Then after a month of work one of my managers decided he wanted to learn SQL (the way of the future!) so he asked me to rewrite it in SQL, but after giving it a good, hard look I gave up and told him that it wasn't worth the effort of trying to switch it.

Anyway, I was just a 17 year old at the time, scooped out of high school.  I knew nothing.  Still don't.  :) 

Mike