Re: I can attach in SQL Server, but can I in Oracle?

Daniel,

[Quoted] [Quoted] Do you also criticize the non-English speaking posters as well for not using the "King's English"? I admitted up front that I was probably using the wrong terms and apologized.

I hope that you haven't adopted the "French" attitude and get snobbish at those of us who do have difficulty in speaking Oracle.

How many times do I have to apologize for being a "novice"...

Ron

"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_exxesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3F341842.109DE8B1_at_exxesolutions.com...
> Ron Fluegge wrote:
>
> > As a follow-up let me again re-iterate, the application is fully
functional
> > and DOES ALREADY WORK with Oracle 8i and 9i on my development machines
using
> > the developer versions of them. I have both Oracle 8i running quite
well on
> > one development machine and Oracle 9i running on another (along with SQL
> > Server 2000 on the same machine) -- developer versions.
> >
> > I readily admit that I am a developer -- not a DBA. That's the reason
for
> > posting the request for information here. And I have quite successfully
> > written a single datalayer that accesses all 5 DBMS from a single source
> > file using the managed data providers in VS.NET 2003.
> >
> > I have successfully created all of the Microsoft databases such that
they
> > can be very "easily" installed on client machines.
> >
> > The only thing that is lacking is the method outlined in my original
posting
> > to get the Oracle 8i and 9i on to the distribution CD and installed on
the
> > clients' machines -- hopefully without having to resort to very long SQL
> > scripts -- because of the 5,000+ data records that have to be included
in
> > one of the tables.
> >
> > <snipped>
>
> If by database you mean the Oracle software ... read Oracle's license. If
you
> are trying to use a Microsoft term "database" to mean the equivalent
Oracle term
> "schema" this is done by putting the DDL used to create the objects into
one or
> more scripts and execute them from SQL*Plus as part of the install. Refer
to
> c:\oracle\ora92\rdbms\admin\sql.bsq for an example of how this is done.
>
> And ... in the future ...when posting in an Oracle group .... use Oracle
terms
> ... not Microsoft terms. You will get more valuable answers.
> --
> Daniel Morgan
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>
Received on Sat Aug 09 2003 - 00:12:15 CEST