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Re: Reasons to upgrade to 8i

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:13:08 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0038B812.20010912073525@fatcity.com>

On Wednesday 12 September 2001 06:20, Boivin, Patrice J wrote:
> Not true, we encountered a situation here: You cannot do a describe over
> db link from 8.1.7 to 7.3.4., Oracle's response is: We won't fix it,
> upgrade, btw we do not support this version anymore.
>
> Regards,
>

They wouldn't fix this when 7.3.4 was still supported, not sure why.

If it really bothers you, write a describe.sql script to do it for you, should be pretty easy.

Jared

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