Re: Maximum columns in Oracle 9i database?

From: Avi Abrami <aabrami_at_intersystemsww.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 07:00:24 +0200
Message-ID: <3A91F9E8.E6747CF3@intersystemsww.com>

MJG wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I understand that the maximum number of columns in an Oracle 8i table is
> 1000. I have seen information relating to the Oracle Data Mining Suite
> that the number of columns in "unlimited". Is this a feature of 9i, or
> is the Suite doing something like tables of vector objects or
> something? I ask because it does seem like 1000 columns would not be
> enough for many data mining problems.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
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Hi Mike,
While I have no experience with data mining, I have discovered that what Oracle claims (in its marketing literature) and what it delivers, are two different things.

They claim that the Oracle 9i application server boasts an EJB server that supports entity beans, but the release notes say that it only supports session beans - thus making it no different than the 8i EJB server.

Just a word of caution to you.

Avi. Received on Mon Feb 19 2001 - 23:00:24 CST