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Two very good guesses, but *wrong*!
6.1 was the "first try" at OPS on VAX/VMS. It was released to a few Beta sites. It did not survive the Beta tests. In fact, it failed so miserably, that Oracle pulled it back and never released it through it's normal channels. It actually froze the machines it was running on. Oracle was so busy checking Oracle Block status's between the machines that it killed the machines.
This was also when Oracle was maturing as a company. Quality Control was unbelievably bad. The bugs we see now are nothing compared to what was being released back then. Oracle went from release 6.0 to 6.2 and quickly to 7.x, hoping that people thought that the 6.x series was like a bad dream.
And I think they did it. For me, their releases are just fine now - as long as we are smart enough to wait one release for the new products to settle down!
Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Gorman [mailto:tim_at_sagelogix.com]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 8:30 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Oracle database version history
They didn't "skip" 6.1; I believe that it was a version specific to some modifications for a single project at AT&T...
on 1/30/04 5:51 AM, Mercadante, Thomas F at thomas.mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us wrote:
> Version 6 did so have stored PL/SQL. I know I created many many stored > packages, procs and functions in 6.2. And I also used OPS in a VAX cluster
> (two Vax servers, one database). Ran just fine, thank you. > > And why did Oracle go from version 6.0 directly to 6.2 (skipping 6.1)? > Anybody? > > Tom Mercadante > Oracle Certified Professional > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:wisernet100_at_yahoo.com] > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 5:48 AM > To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org > Subject: Re: Oracle database version history > > > hot backups were version 6 not 5... 6 was a major rewrite... introduced > rollback segments, tablespaces > > > --- Tim Gorman <tim_at_sagelogix.com> wrote:
>>> >>>> Oracle 5 - 1986 >>>> - Client Server >>>> - Cluster support (VAX) >>> >>> Nope. Cluster wasn't supported with V5. Cluster support >>> came with Oracle 6.2. That was the first OPS version and >>> was VAX/VMS-only.
>>> >>> >>>> >>>> Oracle 6 -1989 >>>> - Online backup & recovery >>>> - Row level locking, stored PL/SQL >>> >>> Nope. PL/SQL wasn't stored in V6, it was executed in SQL*Forms30, >>> if anyone still remembers the good, old INP files instead of the >>> stupid *.FMB stuff.
>>> >>>> - Parallel Server >>>> >>>> The rest you know ;)
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