and here they want to be "database independent"
sigh. it's for a content management system
- "Toepke, Kevin M" <ktoepke_at_trilegiant.com> wrote:
> I agree, it looks messy and confusing... However, I found an example
> that
> makes it a little easier to understand.
>
>
http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:1062923::NO::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID,
> F4950_P8_CRITERIA:3099475696866,%7Banydata%7D
>
> My guess it was implemented for 2 reasons
> 1) to say they have every feature as M$
> 2) to support 3rd party vendors porting stuff from M$
>
> Kevin
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> To: Toepke, Kevin M; Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Kevin,
>
> Looks messy to me, and damned confusing to boot.
>
> Dick Goulet
>
> "The more you overtake the pluming the easier it is to stop up the
> drain."
>
> Scotty of Star Trek, Search for Spock.
>
> ____________________Reply Separator____________________
> Author: "Toepke; Kevin M" <ktoepke_at_trilegiant.com>
> Date: 7/17/2002 9:58 AM
>
> Rachel
>
> Check out the SYS.ANY datatype in Oracle 9i (from the SQL reference).
> Me
> thinks its what SQL server would call a variant data type.
>
> Follow this link for more info
>
http://download-east.oracle.com/otndoc/oracle9i/901_doc/appdev.901/a89852/to
> c.htm
>
> Kevin
> --------
> The "Any" types provide highly flexible modeling of procedure
> parameters and
> table columns where the actual type is not known. These datatypes let
> you
> dynamically encapsulate and access type descriptions, data instances,
> and
> sets of data instances of any other SQL type. These types have OCI
> and
> PL/SQL interfaces for construction and access.
>
>
> SYS.AnyData
> This type contains an instance of a given type, with data, plus a
> description of the type. AnyData can be used as a table column
> datatype and
> lets you store heterogeneous values in a single column. The values
> can be of
> SQL built-in types as well as user-defined types.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 1:09 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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