Um yes I wasn't thinking clearly. It may well also be a reason to avoid
deployment of new systems on 9.0.1. (unless you can avoid creating users
with create session and create view.).
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Niall Litchfield
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"Jonathan Lewis" <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> In fact, there is a bug, which I couldn't find
> last night - 2121935, dated December 2002 !!!
>
> Any ANSI join is a problem.
>
> But this isn't a reason for avoid ANSI syntax,
> it's a reason for not migrating a production
> system to 9.0.1
>
>
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> Niall Litchfield wrote in message
> <3cbbd589$0$238$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net>...
> >"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
> >news:3CBB5EFC.43A50425_at_exesolutions.com...
> >> And no one other than sys should be looking at sys.link$ anyway.
> >
> >This is the whole point of the thread. As described so far the use of
LEFT
> >OUTER JOIN in 9i means that any user with create session privilege can
look
> >at data from any table that exists in the database.
> >
> >Has someone filed a bug on this yet? This looks like a good reason to
avoid
> >the ANSI syntax for a while yet.
> >
>
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 16 2002 - 03:08:34 CDT
