Like the rest of the relational crowd, IBM Corp¦s adding support for video, audio and images to its own database, claiming that new extenders will allow DB2 users to store, search and manipulate multimedia objects. There are extenders for AIX, Windows NT and OS/2 servers and Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 desktops. The extenders are available next month as part of a cross-platform development kit for DB2 on AIX, NT and OS/2. The SDK is $500. The DB2 Text Extender for AIX is now also available for DB2 on OS/2 and NT. It¦s also now offering DB2 Parallel Edition 1.2, said to provide a 50% increase in query performance and a 200% increase in OLTP speed over previous versions. IBM says a new Outer Join capability enables simpler SQL coding whilst SQL Case statements provide reusable expressions. 1.2 costs from $26,400 and ships on June 28.
