Brian Peasland wrote:
> dean wrote:
>> We cannot dictate to a large company when to update their oracle
>> servers!
>>
>
> There are three options:
>
> 1) Tell you client that your application is certified on a higher
> version. If they want to use your application, they will upgrade.
> 2) Code a workaround in your application to get around this problem.
> 3) Code the app as is and it will work in some versions and not in others.
>
> Option 3 should be avoided at all costs. And in my opinion, Option 2 is
> not as desirable as Option 1.
>
> HTH,
> Brian
And don't forget the possibility of using conditional compilation
in the future (http://www.psoug.org/reference/dbms_db_version.html).
--
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Fri Jul 28 2006 - 02:06:21 CDT
