RE: Oracle From a Sybase DBA perspective| What is a Database to S

From: Mercadante, Thomas F <NDATFM_at_labor.state.ny.us>
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 07:18:26 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00437BBA.20020401071826@fatcity.com>

I've never understood Oracle's business plan when it comes to development/data extraction tools. It's like they are only "half interested" in that end of the market.

Sure, they have Forms, Reports, Graphs, JDeveloper, Discoverer etc. But they always seemed weaker than even the nearest competitor.

It's like they "depend on" the 3rd party market to suport the in's and out's of getting data from their database.

I guess, after all, they are a DBMS company, and everything else is after-market. Kinda leaves us (the DBA's) in the lurch either recommending or making do with whatever the client/company has on hand.

Just my little observation.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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• bcp out - It's time Oracle came up with some utility to extract the data in ascii format other than recommending "sqlplus and spool"

What about utl_file functions?

RF

Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP
Oracle DBA Technical Lead
CSX Midtier Database Administration

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