From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Tue Apr 12 10:46:55 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3CFktX0030054 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:46:55 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3CFktem030048 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:46:55 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 6E0E694911; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:44:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00676-05; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:44:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id E342C93E29; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:44:44 -0500 (EST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=Vcz3eyg1XMUhRUk0BBpfXUtoCnawj2sIHzLRblFmUw4pjBESfS5Em0l2cx1h9dLi+/1Wi0wV6qrHLYSi8IkmNyMFyO67o6DU4gR8n1KbCcWvFW6Z4MIdA/+ydCxdlm84eDQzBXXobZ0u6ci6/EHxC0oNCdqhvL7Lv0PBspkV/1M= Message-ID: <7765c8970504120742753eef61@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:42:57 +0100 From: Niall Litchfield To: jonathan@gennick.com Subject: Re: Universal database interface? Cc: Oracle-L@freelists.org In-Reply-To: <54160938287.20050412102932@gennick.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain References: <54160938287.20050412102932@gennick.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 18371 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: niall.litchfield@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: niall.litchfield@gmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: You can tell how deeply I've thought about it by the speed of the response :) It sounds like it would needlessly compete with XQuery to me. Don't know if the databases he is used to support that yet. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/10/16/xquery.html -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l