Re: ORACLE 7.2

surman_at_oracle.com (Scott Urman) writes:

>Cursor variables! You will be able to pass a cursor variable to a stored
>procedure, have the procedure open it for a VARIABLE query, and then fetch from
>it on the client.
 

>lparsons_at_eskimo.com (Lee Parsons) writes:
 

>|> Tony Jambu <aaj_at_phantom.telecom.com.au> wrote:
 

>|> >1. When Oracle 7.2 is due for release?
 

>|> Ditto. Support Sez April. but we know what is worth.

True. But April of what year? (Sorry, that's an old, old, old Oracle joke.) Yes, I've heard April '95 pretty firmly. This is what they reap for building on a stable foundation -- solid follow-on features, quickly, that don't break.

>|> >2. What are the new features?

I understand that some new distributed-database features are showing up. Some of these will support interesting automation of workflow...

>|> OCI 7.1 to provide non-blocking calls.

Cool.

>|> Secure Network Services v1 to support full network datastream encryption
>|> (yet another purchasable product?)

Yes, licensed from RSA, public key encryption apparently -- very secure. Nice. There is a LOT of neat stuff coming out of Oracle's Network Products Division, much of it unheralded so far. SQL*Net v2.x allows some (IMHO) incredible stuff to happen...

>|> There are of course a fist full of others. but they seem pretty vanillia.

One other: an undocumented feature that kicks off anyone who logs on as "TJAMBU". My own enhancement request, I'll admit. ;-) Received on Tue Apr 04 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST