Re: Diff between Oracle 6 & 7& 8

Peter Sharman schrieb in Nachricht <36DC1DF1.33827561_at_us.oracle.com>...
>> Differences between Oracle7 and Oracle 8
>> - Some people call Oracle 8 Oracle 7.4. Oracle 8i probably is going to be
>> far more of a revolution than Oracle 8.
>> - Rowid format changed, necessary because of
>> - partitioning features, both of tables and indexes, added
>> - new backup and recovery product added
>> - OOP features added (NB: Oracle 8 definitely is not an ODBMS!)
>> - added support for binary datatypes, basically any binary file can be
>> stored.
>> - changed security management, added password and account expiration.

As I know: with Oracle 8 it shall be much more easier to link to C-DLL in stored procedures than using it with Oracle 7.

Kind regards
Nicolas Bronke Received on Tue Mar 02 1999 - 11:58:39 CST