Re: SQLPlus was Oracle - "can you imagine" ;-)

ufi, user friendly interface. Boy I feel old now

dgoulet_at_vicr.com wrote:

>OK Keith, do you remember what the prompt was that SQL*Plus came up with back
>them & what it stood for??
>
>Dick Goulet
>
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>Author: Jan Pruner <jan_at_pruner.cz>
>Date: 5/17/2002 8:03 AM
>
>Yes, I can.
>4 years ago I was porting our product to MS SQL 6.5 platform.
>
>JP
>
>On Fri 17. May 2002 16:53, you wrote:
>
>>ever wonder why SQLPlus is so damn robost? It can do
>>just about anything... in a messy and time consuming
>>way sometimes, but it is rock solid.
>>
>>"About 15 years ago, Sqlplus WAS Oracle". Nothing
>>else. Hard to imagine. An Oracle engine with nothing
>>inside (just tables and indexes):
>>no procedures,
>>no packages, package body, functions
>>no triggers
>>no sequences (can you imagine... this came with V6)
>>no ref constraints
>>no 2-phase commit
>>no snapshots, no snapshot logs
>>no parallel server
>>...
>>
>>can you imagine! and it was already the most powerful
>>database server growing at >100% year over year (100%
>>growth for 13 years in a row)
>>
>>I mean "can you imagine" SQLPLUS "was" ORACLE....can
>>you in your wildest dreams imagine what this group
>>would be like?... just SQLPLUS related issues.... "can
>>you imagine"....;-)
>>
>>Keith
>>
>>
>>
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