Re: oracle linux

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 11:26:43 +0100
Message-ID: <7765c89704060203262f11001d@mail.gmail.com>

Comments as usual

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 08:48:15 -0700 , John Kanagaraj <john.kanagaraj_at_hds.com> wrote:
>
> Niall,
>
> >My pet gripe is that - probably because everyone in that environment
> >learns to code for MSSQL - developers don't have a clue about bind
> >variable usage. I believe that this is common in the brave new Java
> >world as well.
>
> I believe MS SQL does promote the use of bind variables (see below), but the
> (majority of) DUHlevopers seem to choose not to use it (and we have seen
> that happen in Oracle as well, haven't we?!)

Caveat this is all SQL2000 specific

That is perfectly true, however SQL2000 does do the equivalent of CURSOR_SHARING=(somewhere between FORCE and SIMILAR) by default, whereas in most Oracle installs CURSOR_SHARING is set to EXACT. I also like the fact that you can name parameters in Oracle but in SQL2k they are (as I understand it) always bound by position.

Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com

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