RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

YES! Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

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Do you remember IBM System 3/10? RPGII & flat files? 120 col. punch cards? No hard drives?

My $0.02 worth,

Ken Janusz, CPIM

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> Careful Mladen, your revealing your age!! Bet you remember RPT & RPF as
well!!
>
> Dick Goulet
> Senior Oracle DBA
> Oracle Certified 8i DBA
>
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>
>
> On 2004.01.19 23:39, Jonathan Gennick wrote:
>
> > I used to use a SQL Module compiler. Not with Oracle though.
> > It's rare for me to run into someone else who likes that
> > approach. Actually, it's rare for me to encounter someone
> > who's even heard of it...
>
> Jonathan, I've been around for a long time. I've seen things like
> DataLens for Lotus123, SQL*Calc, Easy*SQL, then there was an Oracle
> version of then popular DB2 tool, which looked like an IBM 3874 terminal
on top
> of VT320, SQL*Graph does deserve a honorable mention, then there was
PRO*Pascal,
> and a myriad of other exotic stuff that I cannot remember now. I was
laughing when
> I saw "UNDO TABLESPACES" in 9i. What exactly is a difference between a
specialized
> undo tablespace and a file that was just laying around and couldn't be
touched and
> was named "Before Image file" or "BI file". Logical names (another
concept that many
> youngsters are probably unfamiliar with) were usually VAX$BI or ORACLE$BI.
> Unfortunately, discussions like that are not part of OCP curriculum.
> The file is not really part of the database, you can't create any objects
in it, it manages
> itself and it stores the old values of oracle blocks, in case rollback is
needed. I could
> be talking about "BI" file or "UNDO TABLESPACE", there is no difference
whatsoever.
>
>
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