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Re: newbie queston: why would anyone use Oracle?

From: David Portas <REMOVE_BEFORE_REPLYING_dportas_at_acm.org>
Date: 23 Sep 2005 02:48:54 -0700
Message-ID: <1127468934.138236.127740@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

Noons wrote:
> ever tried to join/use/merge/port two tables, one in a big-endian
> system and another in a little-endian one, with anything other
> than Oracle?

Many times. By using ODBC and OLEDB (which implement the standard SQL datatypes incidentally).

> It may be proprietary, but it's as near to universal
> portability as it can get...

... as long as you don't need to leave the Oracle universe.

David Portas Received on Fri Sep 23 2005 - 04:48:54 CDT

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