Re: Information about Oracle8?

Steve Phelan wrote:
>
> Simon Quinn wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to find out any information about Oracle8. I've checked
> > Oracle's web site and others and have found very little.
> Most info is still under NDA. Some of the Oracle seminars I've recently
> attended have hinted at what will be available in version 8, but not too
> much detail has been given. Keep your eye on the seminar list from
> Oracle and maybe attend a few that seemed biased towards v8 features -
> as an example, the NCA seminars include sections called 'Introducing
> Oracle 8' and 'Extending Oracle 8 to the Network Computing
> Architecture'.
>
> Steve Phelan.

One thing I've recently found on the OCIS (UK online customer information system) is that Oracle 8 will continue to support Rule Based Optimisation. Development of RBO will terminate, but some fixing will still go on where:

1. The RBO returns the wrong results or
2. The RBO crashes in the optimisation phase.

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Jonathan Lewis