Re: Oracle Replication previous to Oracle 7?
- From: Dennis Williams <oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: oratune@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:01:54 -0500
Okay, a little more digging with Google yielded the following:
The first well-publicized distributed DBMS product was INGRES/Star,
announced in 1987. Oracle also announced distributed DBMS capabilities in
1987, but largely as a marketing ploy. The first Oracle product to
reasonably support distributed database processing is Oracle 7, which has
been in the market since 1993.
http://www.dciexpo.com/geos/replica.htm
The book "The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison" by Mike Wilson
describes this very well. The product name was "SQL*Star". According to
Mike, the announcement by Larry Ellison of SQL*Star preempted the
INGRES/Star announcement. The Oracle developers hadn't even heard of this
project until Larry's announcement. When Ingres made their announcement,
the reporters asked: "so this is like Oracle's product?".
Dennis Williams
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Dennis Williams <
oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Robert,
> I agree that the first working Oracle replication was in Oracle 7. But
> this reminds me of something. I dimly recall a product named "Oracle Star".
> My recollection is that it was the first announced distributed database
> product. I'm not sure if it was more than vaporware, but I think it was
> mentioned in one of the Oracle manuals.
>
> Dennis Williams
>
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