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RE: a couple of questions

From: Deshpande, Kirti <kirti.deshpande_at_verizon.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 10:46:10 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0049A5EF.20020717104610@fatcity.com>


Rachel:
 For a quick scoop on this sys.ANYDATA datatype, check current issue of Oracle Magazine (Jul/Aug). Tom Kyte's column has neat information on the AnyDATA. But using it in SQL queries ain't the prettiest thing.

HTH,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Toepke, Kevin M [SMTP:ktoepke_at_trilegiant.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 12:59 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: a couple of questions
>
> Rachel
>
> Check out the SYS.ANY datatype in Oracle 9i (from the SQL reference). Me
> thinks its what SQL server would call a variant data type.
>
> Follow this link for more info
> http://download-east.oracle.com/otndoc/oracle9i/901_doc/appdev.901/a89852/
> toc.htm
>
> Kevin
> --------
> The "Any" types provide highly flexible modeling of procedure parameters
> and
> table columns where the actual type is not known. These datatypes let you
> dynamically encapsulate and access type descriptions, data instances, and
> sets of data instances of any other SQL type. These types have OCI and
> PL/SQL interfaces for construction and access.
>
>
> SYS.AnyData
> This type contains an instance of a given type, with data, plus a
> description of the type. AnyData can be used as a table column datatype
> and
> lets you store heterogeneous values in a single column. The values can be
> of
> SQL built-in types as well as user-defined types.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 1:09 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Okay, I'm working on what feels like 30 new projects all at once and I
> WILL be RTFM'ing as soon as I can get more than 5 minutes out of
> meetings but....
>
>
> first: has anyone heard of any problems with 64-bit Oracle on a
> Solaris 64-bit OS?
>
> second (and this one confuses me a bit)... I've been asked if Oracle9i
> supports a "variant" datatype -- they are not familiar with oracle but
> are familiar with SQL Server and say that there is a datatype called
> "variant" there where you can basically overload the column with
> whatever datatype you want (string, number, date) and the database
> knows what type of data it is storing within the column. They referred
> me to C++ and Java, neither of which I know.
>
> Can anyone point in the right direction to start researching this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Rachel
>
>
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