Re: [?] Command USE using Oracle db

From: <sybrandb_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 6 Oct 2003 07:39:55 -0700
Message-ID: <a1d154f4.0310060639.3dd1ffe8@posting.google.com>

"Igor Damiani" <igor_at_igordamiani.it> wrote in message news:<blrbrn$fc4au$1_at_ID-134521.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> sorry, but i use dBase, FoxPro, Access, MS-SQL Server and Mysql....
> Oracle is the only RDBMS that use particular terms and concept to identify
> database and table and so on.
>
> database is a collection of tables, views/queries, users in every RDBMS I
> have worked on.
> Why Oracle call it "schema" ?
> :-/
> IMHO, Oracle have to align his semantics to all other todays' RDBMS .....
> thanks, that's all!
> good coding!!!

It's just the other way around. No vendor adheres to official relational terminology, EXCEPT Oracle.
IMNSHO, who are you to tell Oracle should change terminology? What is the installed base of the other toys you have used sofar?

Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA Received on Mon Oct 06 2003 - 09:39:55 CDT