31.3. A Bit of History
IBM and Oracle jointly proposed these extensions in early 1999, and thanks to ANSI’s uncommonly rapid (and praiseworthy) actions, they are part of the SQL-99 Standard. IBM implemented portions of the specifications in DB2 UDB 6.2, which was commercially available in some forms as early as mid-1999. Oracle 8i version 2 and DB2 UDB 7.1, both released in late 1999, contain beefed-up implementations.
Other vendors contributed, including database tool vendors Brio, MicroStrategy, and Cognos, and database vendor Informix, among others. A team lead by Dr. Hamid Pirahesh of IBM’s Almaden Research Laboratory played a particularly important role. After his team had researched the subject for about a year and come up with an approach ...
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