Oracle-L: RE: Verrrry interesting article at MetaLink

From: <John.Hallas_at_vodafone.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:23:29 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004E554F.20021010002329@fatcity.com>

Jared,
You should feel upset as well as flattered. In my view you have a strong case against Oracle for some form of compensation, as a minimum you should be credited in the article.
Whether you can win against a big corporation is another matter of course. I and many others can confirm that the document has been on your site for at least 3 - 4 years (although they state the article to be originally dated 1998).

I would certainly be in contact with Oracle about this. Perhaps a good starting point would be your sales rep or contact at wherever you are working now.

John

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Sent: 10 October 2002 08:13
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Dear list,

I found something rather interesting on MetaLink today.

While doing a little research on UTL_FILE, I came across document # 1050919.6. This document deals with how to dump a table to an ascii file.

http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_datab ase_id=NOT&p_id=1050919.6

I began to think the code looked a little familiar. Then I saw the temporary file name of '_dtmp.sql', which was rather reminiscent of file names I use.

Further perusal revealed that the comments were written by yours truly, and match word for word those I added to the dump.sql script years ago.

See for yourself: http://www.cybcon.com/~jkstill/util/zips/dump.sql

I don't know whether to be flattered or upset.

Jared
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