Re: What is a UDT?

Ryan wrote:

> looks like they snagged UDT from object oriented terminology. Where you have
> your primitive data types such as ints, chars, etc... everything else is
> created by the user. then everything which is created by the programmer.
>
> however, considering that most oracle people dont have Object oriented
> backgrounds, you would think they would beef up the documentation. Now I
> remember skimming the Object Type docs, and I think I remember a reference
> to the term User defined data type, but they really should put 'UDT'
> somewhere in the documentation to make it easier.
>
> btw, has anyone found the Oracle Object types(other than the arrays and REF
>

Biggest silliness I see with developers - reinventing data types - can be remedied with UDTs ...

Q: how many variants of 'Address' definition can a company have? A: at least (# of programmers + 3) - assuming no 3rd pty vendors

Huge potential savings in maintenance cost alone - usually enough to be able to afford the increase in processor size (and then some). Received on Sun Jul 06 2003 - 21:19:53 CDT