RE: Re[2]: SQLPlus was Oracle - "can you imagine" ;-)

I believe, fifteen years ago, it had already changed to SQL>. I'm also pretty sure that iag/iap had also already been introduced. OCI was definitely there and probably the Oracle pre-compilers for 3GL's as well.  

As someone who has been an Oracle DBA since 1984, I can only say Keith's understanding of the Oracle RDBMS, "'About 15 years ago, Sqlplus WAS Oracle' Nothing else." differs radically from the conventional view.

I believe the first responder was on track, with his "imbibing" query.

Ian MacGregor
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
ian_at_SLAC.Stanford.edu

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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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