RE: Converting Longs

Jay,

Well since he says Oracle recommends not using Longs but Oracle itself uses Longs, have the luser submit a TAR or give him Uncle Larry's email address. Should be good for a laugh or two.

Jerry Whittle
ACIFICS DBA
NCI Information Systems Inc.
jerome.whittle_at_scott.af.mil
618-622-4145

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay [SMTP:fish_dba_at_hotmail.com]
>
> Hello:
> Since everyone has forwarded a comment about their war stories I would like
> to offer up my Monday.
> The a programmer on a client I am working at asked me to convert all of the
> long data types since Oracle recommends that you do not use them.
> Since we use no longs I asked what he was referring to. He said please run
> a DESC on ALL_TRIGGERS, Then commented that I do not know my database.
>
> ALTER SYSTEM DROP STUPID_USER user does not seem to be working in this
> situation any ideas?
>

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