Re: DAO & Oracle stored proceddures

hm, nearly all customers i know say:

we r running ora / mss / db2. ur application have to run on my platform, period.

have never seen another database like postgresql.

clients run in 99% of all cases on win32

"Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message news:3c42a028$0$233$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net...
> We buy a number of products. Most of these tout the 'fact' that they are
> 'database independent'. In many cases this is true and can be defines as
> they make inapproprate use of all the database that they run on.
>
> (Incidentally, they almost never seem to run against postgresql on a linux
> client either but require windows somewhere in the mix - thus not being
> database or platform independent).
>
> The ones that are self evidently developed on one platform *cough*
> SQL*Server *cough* and then ported have platform specific bugs eg "There
> was a missing alias in the script in patch <patchname>. This made the
> script fail on Oracle." If the developer has got the alias syntax wrong
what
> odds will you give me on bind variable use.
>
> I share Jim's view. I don't see why we are so bound up with giving least
> common denominator database access when we are happy to specify
> OS/Browser/Runtime library requirements.
>
>
> --
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> Audit Commission UK
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> "Steffen Ramlow" <s.ramlow_at_gmx.de> wrote in message
> news:a1s918$ssee6$1_at_ID-54600.news.dfncis.de...
> > and these product only have 2 run on ora?
> >
> >
> > "Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-family_at_attbi.com> wrote in message
> > news:0L008.14324$uA.106923_at_rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net...
> > > I've worked in a lot of product development.
> > > Jim
> >
> >
> > > "Steffen Ramlow" <s.ramlow_at_gmx.de> wrote in message
> > > news:a1q1bu$sjh5p$2_at_ID-54600.news.dfncis.de...
> > > >
> > > > "Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-family_at_attbi.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:rXZ%7.6444$Tq.33594_at_rwcrnsc54...
> > > > > In my experience over 90% of the time the "database portability"
> issue
> > > is
> > > > never
> > > > > taken "advantage" of.
> > > >
> > > > it seems that u never work in product development but in projects..
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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Received on Mon Jan 14 2002 - 04:29:04 CST