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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: RE: a couple of questions
Some times I get a thin CD pack which only has 32bit.
I will have to ask Oracle to ship me the 64bit version.
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 2:04 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Dennis,
I'm not sure your referring to the message I posted a couple of weeks
ago,
but the labeling on the CD's from Oracle can be deceiving. Each CD pack
ships
with both the 32 and 64 bit versions of Oracle, one of which is labeled with
the
bit value). Make sure you've got the right one.
If memory is serving correctly 'variant' in MicroSlop maps somewhat to
raw
in Oracle.
Dick Goulet
____________________Reply Separator____________________ Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM> Date: 7/17/2002 9:33 AM
Rachel - We are using 64-bit Oracle on 64-bit Solaris. No problems so far, but not much mileage on either. The one thing that came up is that you must be careful because you seem to get 32-bit Oracle by default. Someone on this list suggested running "file oracle".
Oracle does have user-defined data types if that helps.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 12:09 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Okay, I'm working on what feels like 30 new projects all at once and I WILL be RTFM'ing as soon as I can get more than 5 minutes out of meetings but....
first: has anyone heard of any problems with 64-bit Oracle on a Solaris 64-bit OS?
second (and this one confuses me a bit)... I've been asked if Oracle9i supports a "variant" datatype -- they are not familiar with oracle but are familiar with SQL Server and say that there is a datatype called "variant" there where you can basically overload the column with whatever datatype you want (string, number, date) and the database knows what type of data it is storing within the column. They referred me to C++ and Java, neither of which I know.
Can anyone point in the right direction to start researching this?
Thanks!
Rachel
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