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

Yep, this is the standard outcry of former sybase developers who moved to oracle.

You also forgot to mention temporary tables - a great feature, but it is constantly ignored by oracle.

Igor.

Jonathan Lewis wrote:

> 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 Sat Feb 27 1999 - 18:51:35 CST