Re: What's Oracle Trying to Hide ???

I suspect that they are trying to prevent headaches by hiding 'features' that are intended for internal use only.

Sometimes a "DBA" will get hold of some undocumented feature and use it just because it's there, sometimes causing database problems in the process.

This type of behavior is common in the PC world. Just take a look at PC magazine and Windoze websites and you will find all kinds of "tips" and "tricks" that add no value to the system and usually eat up resources.

It seems that this mentality carries over from the Windoze world to those that are new with Oracle, and the "DBA" starts twisting and turning every knob available.

Kind of messes things up for times when one of those undoc features might be useful.

This may be pure speculation on my part , but it's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

Jared

                                                                                       
                           
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Here's a paste from the $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/dbmsutil.sql script:
Rem         dbms_system           - database system level commands (moved
to
Rem                                 prvtutil.sql for more obscurity)

Not only do they want to "obscure" the dbms_system package but I can't find the prvtutil.sql script. Where is this stuff and why do they want to hide it? Any ideas?

...Just found the ./rdbms/admin/prvtutil.plb file and now I'm wishing I could un-"wrap" this "present" on boxing day!

Eschew Obfuscation,
Steve Orr
Skiing Bridger Bowl

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