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Akmal B Chaudhri <akmal_at_no_spam.uk> wrote:
> On 19 May 1997, Walter Roberts wrote:
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> > Oracle8 will support larger, more demanding OLTP (online transaction
> > processing) and data warehousing applications with ...
> >
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> [snip]
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> Doesn't sound as though there is an awful lot of OO there.
There isn't. Oracle8 is not an OO database. No polymorphism, no inheritance. The major add ons are in the ability to partition the tables across machines, operate on individual partitions without taking the whole DB down, handle huge files better, parallel queries, index only tables, improved password management, language support,...
Not a slam, its just what it is.
-- Mike Yukish may106_at_psu.edu ARL/Penn State U http://elvis.arl.psu.edu/~may106Received on Wed May 21 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT