Is it just me?

Or am I not alone in feeling rather underwhelmed by the 10g new features document? A tidy bit of bug-fixing, some nice but relatively minor new capabilities, and -of course- the ability to do Blast queries (handy when I'm trawling through my own genome, which naturally I do on a daily basis. Not). Oh, and all that grid hoo-hah too, I suppose -which maybe 20% of the installed base might find useful some day.

Nothing gob-smackingly 'wow I wish I had that right now' though (which automatic undo, flashback and data guard did for me with 9i, and locally managed tablespaces did for me in 8i). Which is all a bit of a downer, frankly.

Niggles, too: why has streams (to name but one feature) been "enhanced" to support LONGs and LONG RAWs?? I thought those data types were deprecated ages ago, and had a shelf-life measured in months. Oh well: that'll teach me.

Yours musingly,
HJR

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