RE: Sqlplus and connect internal

It's not like Oracle Pioneered this usage of the word. I have seen it many times in manuals for Operating Systems(UNIX, AS400 etc.) and programming languages(Perl, C, Fortran, Pascal). It simply means that the feature is included and works in this current release...but is scheduled to be phased out in a forthcoming release. In other words, we feel we have made this feature useless or redundant, and don't want you to plan heavily on its' use.

Steve McClure
P.S. I really wasn't going to reply to this thread, but it kept coming up. I couldn't hold my 2 cents.

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From:	root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Taylor
Sent:	Friday, September 15, 2000 1:36 PM
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Subject:	Re: Sqlplus and connect internal

My dictionary gives an alternate meaning for deprecate:

To depreciate; belittle; Express disapproval of.

If you think of the usage as sort of the opposite of "recommended", then the phrase "The use of svrmgrl is deprecated" makes sense.

At 10:41 AM 9/15/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Jonathon,
>
>I still find it interesting that Oracle would "deprecate" a product. But
>then, I've read enough of the Oracle manuals to know how creative they get
>with the English language at times.
>
>Rachel
>
>
>>From: Jonathan Gennick <jonathan_at_gennick.com>
>>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>>Subject: Re: Sqlplus and connect internal
>>Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:11:26 -0800
>>
>>Rachel,
>>
>>"Deprecated" is a common term. Chapter 7 of Getting to Know
>>Oracle8i (one of the Oracle manuals) is titled "Deprecated
>>and Desupported Features". If you do a search, you'll see
>>the term "deprecated" used throughout the doc set. It refers
>>to a feature that is slated for desupport, but which has not
>>yet been desupported.
>>
>>If you think about, Oracle's use of the term is consistant
>>with the dictionary definition.
>>
>>Jonathan
>>
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>>On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:07:30 -0800, you wrote:
>>
>> >gee, I've never heard Oracle refer to a product as "deprecated" :)
>> >
>> >>From www.dictionary.com:
>> >
>> >The first and fully accepted meaning of deprecate is "to express
>>disapproval
>> >of." But the word has steadily encroached on the meaning of depreciate.
>>It
>> >is now used, almost to the exclusion of depreciate, in the sense "to
>> >belittle or mildly disparage," as in He deprecated his own contribution.
>> >
>> >Gee, Oracle condemning one of its own products???
>> >
>> >Thanks for today's grin!
>> >
>> >Rachel
>> >
>> >>From: Jonathan Gennick <jonathan_at_gennick.com>
>> >>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>> >>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>> >>Subject: Re: Sqlplus and connect internal
>> >>Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:21:03 -0800
>> >>
>> >>On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:11:13 -0800, you wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >This is the new functionality that is supposed to do away with
>>svrmgrl.
>> >> >Server Manager is supposedly desupported in 8.1.6 (or so I thought)
>>but
>> >>it's
>> >> >still available.
>> >>
>> >>It's currently (8.1.6) a deprecated feature. My
>> >>understanding (one can never be too sure though) is that
>> >>Server Manager will really be gone when 8.2 is released.
>> >>
>> >>Jonathan
>> >>
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