Re: Oracle 11g new features

Connor McDonald wrote:

> Matthias Hoys wrote:


>>> You've got my vote.

>>>

>>> And while they are at it perhaps announce a real kill date for

>>> LONG, LONG RAW, UNIQUE, and numerous other bits of superfluous syntax

>>> and legacy functionality.

>>> --

>>> Daniel A. Morgan

>>> University of Washington

>>> damorgan_at_x.washington.edu

>>> (replace x with u to respond)

> 
> I love the marketing hype "Oracle 10g is 100% cbo"  until you trace the
> data dictionary queries, which have a remarkably high frequency of:
> 
> select /*+ rule */ ....

While we are on the subject of beating up on those nice folks in Redwood Shores up I have one I'd like to put forward.

Get together with the Grid Control team and agree on what is and is not a security violation. Nothing good comes from seeing a fresh installation of a product that is immediately labeled by another product from the same company as a security violation. Execute on UTL_FILE, for example, being one of the more memorable.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
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