SESAM (database)

Last updated February 19, 2019

SESAM / SQL Server is a relational database system originally developed by Siemens, whose role as developer was successively succeeded by Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme (SNI),^[1] Fujitsu Siemens Computers, and now Fujitsu Technology Solutions. It runs on the BS2000/OSD mainframe.

Siemens AG is a German conglomerate company headquartered in Berlin and Munich and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe with branch offices abroad.

Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme, AG (SNI) was formed in 1990 by the merger of Nixdorf Computer and the Data Information Services (DIS) division of Siemens.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH was a Japanese and German vendor of Information technology. The company was founded in 1999 as a 50/50 joint venture between Fujitsu Limited of Japan and Siemens of Germany. On April 1, 2009, the company became Fujitsu Technology Solutions as a result of Fujitsu buying out Siemens' share of the company.

Clients running on BS2000/OSD, UNIX systems, Solaris, Linux and Microsoft Windows are supported.

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Features

Support for SQL3
Data can be stored in EBCDIC and Unicode
Cost-based optimizer
Maintenance is possible during operation
Table partitioning
Multi-platform support
Apache web-server integration

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References

↑ Erhard Rahm (1994). Mehrrechner-Datenbanksysteme: Grundlagen der verteilten und parallelen Datenbankverarbeitung (in German). Erhard Rahm. p. 393. ISBN 978-3-89319-702-6.

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[Rahm1994-1] Erhard Rahm (1994). Mehrrechner-Datenbanksysteme: Grundlagen der verteilten und parallelen Datenbankverarbeitung (in German). Erhard Rahm. p. 393. ISBN 978-3-89319-702-6.