Re: Oracle 8 cant create objects???

On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 13:27:30 +0800, "Rob Edgar" <robedgar_at_hkstar.com> wrote:

>We upgraded from 7.3 to 8 recently and I thought it was about time I looked
>at Objects since this is supposed to be one of the new cool features so I
>tried the following
>
>CREATE TYPE address_t AS OBJECT (
> street VARCHAR2(200),
> city VARCHAR2(200),
> state CHAR(2),
> zip VARCHAR2(20)
> ) ;
>
>Which was an example I found in the docs, but it throws an exception
>"Feature no enabled: objects" . After reading through all the docs I found
>one note that says "Objects are only supported for the Enterprise Edition
>with the Objects option" !!!!!!!
>
>Is this really true ?

Yes it certainly is.

> Does this mean that plain Oracle 8 cannot support
>Objects, if this is true it just seem ridiculous that Oracle tout the
>features of a product and then hide the fact that the features they
>publicise most are not avalable in this version.
Objects is an optional extra that comes with Enterprise edition only.
>
>Makes me wonder what part of 8i's features will in reality turn out to be
>unavailble to me and many like me who just by the standard product. Oracle
>should conside having two different version number for these product to make
>clear to everyone that one has a compleltley different feature set.....

Gollem Received on Thu Mar 18 1999 - 18:00:11 CST