No. The vendor was non responsive when I asked. I believe the whole thing
is a canard. I believe they just do not want to QA the different
environments.
Jim
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"Yong Huang" <yong321_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I would also be interested in your answer to Telemachus's question,
> since I'm looking at the effect of machine endianness on data storage
> in Oracle memory recently. The question is simply, can the vendor give
> you the exact procedure to show the data presentation problem due to
> different endianness? If you can get a small test case, that'll be
> great.
>
> Yong Huang
>
> "Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-down_with_spammers_at_attbi.com> wrote in message
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> > They said they are using OCI as the interface. Not sure what you mean
by
> > method? Do you mean putting binary data in a character column?
> > Jim
> >
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> > it out.
> > "Telemachus" <telemachus_at_ulysseswillreturn.net> wrote in message
> > news:eDwla.8047$pK2.9358_at_news.indigo.ie...
> > > Have they told you what method they're using to select/insert the data
> > from
> > > the application server ?
> > > "Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-downwithspammersfamily_at_attbi.com> wrote in
message
> > > news:Pxsla.436830$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
Received on Fri Apr 18 2003 - 00:03:00 CDT
