RE: OT ? for people who know other databases besides Oracle

From: Seley, Linda <LSeley_at_IQNavigator.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:21:37 -0700
Message-Id: <10758.127962@fatcity.com>

OK. So we want to avoid procedures, functions, triggers, etc. unless = we
want to build some sort of wrapper. What about long datatypes, blobs, clobs, outer joins, distincts, using nextval to grab sequences, etc. = Does
anyone know where I can find more information? (Buying copies of the standards is expensive!) Thanks Jared, the FIPS stuff has started me = in the
right direction but seems to have opened up more questions than it = answered!

Thanks guys!

Linda

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From: paquette stephane [mailto:stephane_paquette_at_yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 3:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: OT ? for people who know other databases besides Oracle

On Oracle 7.x there used to be an init.ora parameter "sql_ansi" or something that you could set true/false in order to know if your sql code was ansi compatible or not.

Unfortunately, this parameter doesn't exist on 8i.

For sure, portability is the opposite of performance.

Having your application to work on many rdbms will prevent you to have the Oracle only features. Or you can build a driver per rdbms in order to used each rdbms functionnalities.

Hvae fun !

• "Seley, Linda" <LSeley_at_IQNavigator.com> a =E9crit=A0:
  > Our Java users are concerned that there may be a
  > possibility that their code
  > may have to work on top of a variety of databases.=20
  > We use Oracle in-house
  > but we, theoretically, may sell our product to
  > another company that uses
  > something else besides Oracle. Our product would
  > then have to talk with
  > their database. What, then, are the advantages and
  > disadvantages of using
  > views, procedures, triggers, etc. What would buy us
  > the most portability?
  > What headaches might we just have to deal with
  > because there is no way
  > around it?
  >=20
  > Any insights would be greatly welcomed. Feel free
  > to email me privately at
  > lseley_at_iqnavigator.com.
  >=20
  > Thanks!
  >=20
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