Re: Oracle History??

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:<FQQC9.80630$g9.227235_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com>...
> Well, I think they should, because on closer inspection of the document Mark
> kindly posted a link to, I discover it wasn't so perfect after all. For a
> start, it disagrees with Oracle's own website (the link Karsten posted)
> about when Parallel Server was first available (it agrees with my first
> thoughts that it was 1989, but the Oracle website says 1985). And its a bit
> skimpy on detail such as 'what is the background of interMedia', which I
> know I can get fro Tom Kyte's Expert One-on-One... the question is, where
> did *he* get it from, and why can't we get similar potted histories for any
> given product or feature?
>
> It's a big job, but the Corporation should definitely have an archivist.
>
> Regards
> HJR
>

You're probably right. They say 1993 for client server, it was first introduced in v5 which is definitely before 1993. And too few technical details so precious to me.

Looks like I goofed up with read-only consistency. Probably it was v4, still looking. Still remember that article, probably from Byte, which was definitely talking about snapshot-based read-only consistency and v6. Need to check.

Couple more things I remembered:

1. Inline views: v7.1, undocumented. Documented and allowed in PL/SQL in 7.3.
2. Stored PL/SQL objects: v7. PL/SQL in v6 allowed anonymous blocks only.
3. union all: v7.

>
> "Alex Filonov" <afilonov_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:336da121.0211200933.558b827b_at_posting.google.com...
> > afilonov_at_yahoo.com (Alex Filonov) wrote in message
> news:<336da121.0211192130.78afb2bf_at_posting.google.com>...
> > > "Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> news:<D9AC9.80088$g9.225516_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com>...
> > > > Does anyone know of a set of documentation outlining when features
> first
> > > > appeared in various Oracle versions? For example, I believe that
> Parallel
> > > > Server first made an appearance in version 5 in 1989. But I've only
> got a
> > > > rather dodgy source for that belief, and I'd like the donkey's
> doo-dah's
> > > > last word in authorative truth on the matter. Just as an example.
> > > >
> > > > Is there such a document ('cos I can't find it if so)?
> > > >
> > > > Personal reminiscences are appreciated, but not quite the definitive
> source
> > > > I was after!
> > > >
> > > > Cheers
> > > > HJR
> > >
> > > Sorry, can't give references. May be couple of days later.
> > >
> > > Set operations: union, minus, intersect: v5
> > >
> > > Read-only consistency: v6. There was a white paper, I don't think it's
> possible
> > > to find it now. There was also an article, probably in Byte magazine in
> 1989(?).
> > >
> > > Cost-based optimizer: v7. White paper might be still available on
> Metalink, but
> > > I'm not sure. Need to check.
> >
> > No white paper on metalink.
> >
> > May be it's time for Oracle to open online museum? Thoughts?
Received on Wed Nov 20 2002 - 23:11:33 CST