Re: Will Oracle _ever_ provide a built in SYSTEM command in PL/SQL

Give it another 3 or 4 years and Oracle will have caught up with Pick - the database engine IS the operating system !

Jonathan Lewis
Yet another Oracle-related web site: www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk

Steve Phelan wrote in message
<36D5CC31.527CB2FB_at_toneline.n-o-s-p-a-m.demon.co.uk>...
>Point taken. But...
>
>It'll be very interesting to see how Oracle8/IFS/raw iron pad out longer
term. I'd
>be very suprised if more 'system' style functionality wasn't included,
regardless of
>what Larry says about the OS being unecessary. And even if this isn't in
the first
>cut, it'll turn up sooner or later. Oracle8 as it stands can't do
everything (not
>that anyone, except maybe Larry) says it can, and either that 'system'
becomes
>subsummed into a database/OS hybrid, or we stick with what we have
(unlikely).
>
Received on Fri Feb 26 1999 - 02:57:30 CST