Re: Migration from SQL-Server 7.0

>This is the usual disease, which can be remedied by a prescription of RTFM.
>or consulting
>http://osi.oracle.com/~tkyte/ResultSets/index.html
>as has been posted _many many_ times in this newsgroup.

i guess you didn't understand what i originally wrote. i actually mentioned that returning cursorrefs is oracle's way to handle that. it's a somewhat broken design to return references to local variables but it works in oracle. i said nothing else.

>My experience is people with a sqlserver background are expecting everything
>to function in Oracle _exactly_ the same way, and they start complaining
>about Oracle immediately when this doesn't proof true. Of course they just
>started 'somewhere', which is usual in the Microsoft world. So that's why my
>orginal last sentence was a bit cynical.

do as you please. my problem is that i need to maintain a common sql-code-base for oracle, mssql and sybase. if things work slightly different it's simply a nuisance. that's got nothing to do with ignorance or 'my dbms is longer than yours'.

ciao, jan

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