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Re: REPOST: RMAN question

From: Joel Garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: 3 Sep 2004 13:28:43 -0700
Message-ID: <91884734.0409031228.571a5650@posting.google.com>


Ed Stevens <nospam_at_noway.nohow> wrote in message news:<bp4ej095bde7n1rrn8hab21ks4gv7739uu_at_4ax.com>...
> On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 22:22:04 -0700, Daniel Morgan
> <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> <snippage>
>
> <off-topic slippage>
>
> >Ok with me. Going back to my Cobol days and thinking about the year 2000
> >I considered forever to be about 20 years and so did all of my
> >contemporaries. ;-)
> >
> Even though I haven't written a line of Cobol in several years, I
> still consider myself an unrepentant Cobol programmer. And as such I
> still find myself taking umbrage at even a hint that the Y2k problem
> was a Cobol problem. As every Cobol programmer must realize, Y2k was
> never a "Cobol issue" but a system design issue that usually -- and
> coincidentally -- was implemented in Cobol. And could have been
> written in any other language.

And was, as a search on y2k on metalink will show. Sometimes even a feature, not a bug:
http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showFrameDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=1043768.6

This is still kinda interesting:
http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showFrameDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=77654.1

Not to mention all the installer issues.

>
> (Don't even get me started about my feelings regarding the "demise" of
> Cobol . . . )
>
> ;-)

I was glad not to have to deal with it 25 years ago!

jg

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