Re: CREATE TABLESPACE - SOLUTION

Essentially you guys are protecting yourselves from possible lawsuits. Thats logical thinking and good business planning.

                                                        Tapan

Pete Sharman wrote:
>
> John
>
> There is common sense in this (believe it or not!). If we automatically allowed
> new functionality to be used, it could cause problems if you later needed to
> downgrade for some reason and you'd used some new functionality. Downgrading
> would then be made much more difficult. If, however, we allow you to change the
> compatible parameter yourself when you're happy there's no need to downgrade, it
> makes more sense. The result is that (except in a particular release where they
> changed their minds on this in Development) the compatible parameter either
> defaults to 7.0.13 or something silly like that, or it defaults to a null. The
> decision to use new functionality is then yours to make, and hopefully make
> sensibly.
>
> HTH.
>
> Pete
>
> John Edwards wrote:
>
> > Thank you all for your help.
> >
> > I'm running Oracle version 7.3.4.0.0 so it seems strange to me that I'd need
> > to put a "compatible" entry in the init.ora file!
> >
> > But it did the trick so slowly but surely, I'm getting there!
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Pete

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