Re: Oracle 8.1

From: St Erroneous <Xishamael_at_goliath.mersinet.co.ukX>
Date: 16 Aug 1998 16:09:00 +0100
Message-ID: <6r6smc$8a7$1@mislaid.mersinet.co.uk>

Thomas Kyte <tkyte_at_us.oracle.com> seems to have written:
>Someone, attribution lost of the windows of Usenet, wrote:
>>Is [8.1] the version where they replace PL/SQL with Java?
>No PL/SQL is not being replaced. PL/SQL is here to stay. Augment,
>supplement, in addition to -- yes. Replace -- no way.

It is, so They say, the version where They implement that most elusive, most wished-for, most fumed-over of commands:

ALTER TABLE <FU> RENAME COLUMN <BAR> <BAZ>;

(although I suppose that might pop it in the _modify_ clause).

-michael
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