Re: Deprecated features in 12c
From: Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:56:55 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <pan.2014.08.25.15.56.55_at_gmail.com>
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> I think that these are not going away anytime soon - removing support
> for them would break a gazillion applications out there.
>
> Regards Peter
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:56:55 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <pan.2014.08.25.15.56.55_at_gmail.com>
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:19:54 +0200, Peter Schneider wrote:
> Am 25.08.2014 00:07, schrieb Mladen Gogala:
> [...]
>> In Oracle 12c we still have the schizophrenic with two job mechanisms. >> Of course, the manual says that DBMS_JOB is deprecated, but Oracle >> itself still uses it, which means that it is sort of not deprecated >> after all. The same thing applies to the type "LONG":
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> I think that these are not going away anytime soon - removing support
> for them would break a gazillion applications out there.
>
> Regards Peter
Well, DBMS_JOB can easily be emulated using DBMS_SCHEDULER, which is much more powerful, all encompassing batch framework. I really don't see what would be broken by merging DBMS_JOB and DBMS_SCHEDULER.
-- Mladen Gogala The Oracle Whisperer http://mgogala.byethost5.comReceived on Mon Aug 25 2014 - 17:56:55 CEST