Re: endian prder in binary data

"Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-downwithspammersfamily_at_attbi.com> wrote in message news:<Pxsla.436830$S_4.499081_at_rwcrnsc53>...
> Lets say I have a column of a raw or a blob. Lets say it is Oracle version
> 8.1.7.4 and is running on a Sun Solaris box. Lets say the client is running
> on Windows 2000. I am very sure that no matter that the client (w2k) and
> the server (Sun) are different endian architectures that the sqlnet will
> take care of the correct endian order.
>
> Why am I asking this? A vendor I deal with claims that since they are
> storing binary data in the database the application server (the client) and
> the database server (Oracle) must be on the same OS otherwise the endian
> problem. In the over ten years I've been working with Oracle and other
> RDBMSs I've never heard of such a problem. I think the vendor is shining me
> on. But hey I could be wrong.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim

My bet is this a cover ur ass movement from the vendors side.

Regards

Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA Received on Fri Apr 11 2003 - 07:32:41 CDT