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Acknowledgments:

Tim Fallen-Bailey, International Product Manager/Global Products Group, Sybase, Inc. timfb@sybase.com

Michael Kung, Internationalization Development Manager/Server Technologies Div., Oracle Corp. mkung@us.oracle.com

Stefan Buchta, Group Manager, Software AG/Beacon Information Technology Japan buchta@sag.co.jp

David Marshall, Program Manager, SQL Server Development Team, Microsoft Inc. davmarsh@microsoft.com

References and Public Information Used for this report:

Sybase

[1] Sybase Inc., Sybase SQL Anywhere Users Guide, 1995, ISBN 1-55094-110-0

[2] Sybase Inc., Open Client and Open Server Common Libraries Reference Manual, Sybase Product ID 32850-01-1000-04

[3] Sybase Inc., Open Client-Library/C Reference Manual, Sybase Product ID 32840-01-1000-04

[4] Sybase Inc., Sybase SQL Server System Administration Guide, Sybase Product ID 32500-01-1100-03

[5] Sybase, Inc., "SYBASE expands client/server infrastructure to simplify multi-tier computing", Press Release, 1997, "Simplified Application Localization" , announces UTF-8 support in Open Client and Open Server 11.1

[6] Sybase, Inc., "SYBASES new DirectCONNECT simplifies enterprise data integration", Press Release, 1997, "Enhanced Globalization", announces Unicode conversion engine in DirectCONNECT

[7] Powersoft, Object Cycle Overview, 1997, "ObjectCycle Advantages", mentions "Internationalization via Sybase Unicode Infrastructure Technology "

[8] Sybase, Inc., Sybase SQL Server Case Notes Q1 1996, Data 10069671, mentions Unicode support in SQL Server

Oracle

[9] M. Lonnroth and R. Hodge, Oracle7 Workgroup Server, "National Language Support"

[10] Oracle Corp., Oracle7 Server Release 7.3 Datasheet, "Comprehensive National Language Support"

[11] Oracle Corp., Database Administrator's Guide, Version 7.2, Appendix G, "National Language Support", Rev. 1996

[12] N. Flaherty, "National Language Support: Providing Data Processing Applications for the Global Marketplace", Paper #114, International Oracle User Week Proceedings, Vol. 1. 1993

Microsoft

[13] P. Hussey, "Microsoft SQL Server Developer's Roadmap", Microsoft SQL Server Developers Conference Transcripts, September 4-5, 1996. Suggests rewriting application to new ODBC standards to support Unicode

[14] K. North, "Understanding ODBC 3.0 Standards and OLE DB", DBMS ODBC Special Report, April 1996, Mentions Unicode support and new datatypes in ODBC 3.0

[15] Microsoft Sales Online, "Does Microsoft® SQL Server support Unicode?", Microsoft SQL Server Questions and Answers

ADABAS D and http://www.sagus.com/

[16] S. Buchta, "ADABAS D, Implementation of Full Unicode Support", Eighth International Unicode/ISO 10646 Conference Proceedings, Part 2, The Unicode Consortium, 1996, Hong Kong

[17] S. Buchta, "National Language Support and Unicode in Relational Databases and SQL, Ninth International Unicode Conference Proceedings, Part 2, The Unicode Consortium, 1996, San Jose

IBM DB2

[18] P. Glenski, "ISO-10646 and Unicode--Multilingual Support", AS/400 Magazine, November/December 1995 Issue, IBM Corporation, See section on "SQL-table support"

[19] IBM Corp., DB2 SQL Reference, 1995. "Data Types"; "Language Elements"; "Functions"

[20] IBM Corp., DB2 Application Programming, 1995, "The WCHARTYPE Precompiler Option "

Informix-Online

[21] Informix Software Inc., Guide to GLS Functionality for Informix Products,Version 7.2. April 1996 Informix Part No. 000-7876A

[22] http://tiger.cat.syr.edu:3000/maillist/0445.html, A customer using SYSTEXT for UCS-2 Unicode support in Illustra

CA-OpenIngres

[23] H. Raabe and R. Coto, "Internationalization Issues", inquire_ingres : A Technical Newsletter for CA-OpenIngres Users, Summer 1995/Vol.5, No. 1, Computer Associates

Borland Interbase

[24] Borland International, Inc., InterBase 4, The Scalable SQL Server, Fact Sheet, "International character set support — UNICODE and more"

[25] J. Taylor, "A Comparison of Borland InterBase 4.0, Sybase SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server", InterBase Technical White Papers, Borland International, Inc., 1996, "International Support"

[26] F. Hunt, Borland InterBase 4.0 White Paper, InterBase Technical White Papers, Borland International, Inc., 1996, "International Features"

Teradata

[27] A. Witkowski, G. Roberts, D. Craig, and A. Maghbouleh, "Design of Unicode Support for the Teradata DBS", Seventh International Unicode Conference Proceedings, The Unicode Consortium, 1995, San Jose

Other Sources

[28] H. Yoshioka and J. Melton, "Character Internationalization in Databases: A Case Study", Digital Technical Journal, vol. 5, no. 3 (Summer 1993): 80-96

[29] Database Language SQL - Part 2: SQL/Foundation, ISO/IEC 9075 working draft, 1995

[30] M. McKenna, "Conversion of a Multinational Software Developer to Unicode - A Case History To-Date", Ninth International Unicode Conference Proceedings, Part 1, The Unicode Consortium, 1996, San Jose

[31] "The JDBC(tm) Database Access API", Sun Microsystems, 1996

[32] M. Rennhackkamp, DBMS Server Comparison Supplement, November 1996: An Analysis Of The Strengths And Weaknesses Of The Big Six Database Servers, Miller Freeman, Inc.

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