Re: Foreign key in Oracle Sql

From: David Cressey <david.cressey_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:36:21 GMT
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"Dieter Nöth" <dnoeth_at_gmx.de> wrote in message news:35d1jgF4lgs7eU1_at_individual.net...

> My 2 Euro cents:
> - Oracle is trying to achieve Core SQL:1999 compliance, like any other
> DBMS vendor: IMHO that's the reason why they added CASE support and ANSI
> JOIN syntax.

...
> -> Oracle implements a VARCHAR according to SQL:1999 and leaves Varchar2
> the way it is and then the choice is up to the user...
>

Thank you Dieter. That had escaped my notice. Sounds like a solution to me. It sounds cleaner than a toggle, at first glance. Received on Fri Jan 21 2005 - 21:36:21 CET

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