Return-Path: Received: from newsfeed.cts.com (newsfeed.cts.com [209.68.248.164]) by naude.co.za (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id g4I0BvA13465 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 20:11:57 -0400 Received: from fatcity.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by newsfeed.cts.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id JAA11419; Fri, 17 May 2002 09:08:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by fatcity.com (26-Feb-2001/v1.0g-b71/bab) via UUCP id 00463757; Fri, 17 May 2002 08:28:21 -0800 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 08:28:21 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L X-Comment: Oracle RDBMS Community Forum X-Sender: dgoulet@vicr.com Sender: root@fatcity.com Reply-To: ORACLE-L@fatcity.com Errors-To: ML-ERRORS@fatcity.com From: dgoulet@vicr.com Subject: Re[2]: SQLPlus was Oracle - "can you imagine" ;-) Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California X-ListServer: v1.0g, build 71; ListGuru (c) 1996-2001 Bruce A. Bergman Precedence: bulk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit OK Keith, do you remember what the prompt was that SQL*Plus came up with back them & what it stood for?? Dick Goulet ____________________Reply Separator____________________ Author: Jan Pruner Date: 5/17/2002 8:03 AM Yes, I can. 4 years ago I was porting our product to MS SQL 6.5 platform. JP On Fri 17. May 2002 16:53, you wrote: > ever wonder why SQLPlus is so damn robost? It can do > just about anything... in a messy and time consuming > way sometimes, but it is rock solid. > > "About 15 years ago, Sqlplus WAS Oracle". Nothing > else. Hard to imagine. An Oracle engine with nothing > inside (just tables and indexes): > no procedures, > no packages, package body, functions > no triggers > no sequences (can you imagine... this came with V6) > no ref constraints > no 2-phase commit > no snapshots, no snapshot logs > no parallel server > ... > > can you imagine! and it was already the most powerful > database server growing at >100% year over year (100% > growth for 13 years in a row) > > I mean "can you imagine" SQLPLUS "was" ORACLE....can > you in your wildest dreams imagine what this group > would be like?... just SQLPLUS related issues.... "can > you imagine"....;-) > > Keith > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience > http://launch.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jan Pruner INET: jan@pruner.cz Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: dgoulet@vicr.com Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).