Re: What is Oracle10G?

"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_exxesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3F1D5BD8.74780643_at_exxesolutions.com...
> Not many ... yet. But I think that when the other tool vendors, report
writers,
> CASE tools, etc. provide support it will follow.
>
> Yesterday, at a local telecom nested object tables would have been the
perfect
> solution had the tool to query them for reporting been available. The
fall-back
> was not nearly as elegant nor as clean.

What you want to get data *out* of the database as well? Madness I tell you :(

Seriously though you do have a serious point, though one may find that you have to buy 9iAS or BEA or whatever and a host of clever tools to replace the lingua franca of SQL. Perhaps OQL (object query language) is there to be written

ENUMERATE MANDATORY_PROPERTIES OF user_object WHERE property_type='USER_DEFINED';
LIST INHERITANCE OF METHOD '_object constructor';

-- 
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK

etc etc.