Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!prodigy.com!rip!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Daniel Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: What is a UDT? Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 14:34:05 -0700 Organization: EXE Message-ID: <3F09E74D.C90EF818@exxesolutions.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3F085794.64CF69C@exxesolutions.com> <3f09deed_1@mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@pond178.drizzle.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 29 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:237099 Paul Brewer wrote: > "DJ" wrote in message > news:h8ZNa.5168$nP.2295@newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net... > > > > user defined type? > > > Useless Derivative Technology. > > Marketing rushed into an 'Object Relational Database' about 6 years ago, as > I understand it because they felt threatened by something Informix had, and > IBM might get. > Now they're saddled with maintaining the legacy for the benefit of the > suckers who believed them, whilst really hoping that it will be quietly > forgotten. > > Regards, > Paul Take a good look at XML. Perhaps you'll change your mind. Or do you think it a passing fad? ;-) -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/extinfo/certprog/oad/oad_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)