RE: Really annoying change to 11.2 sqlplus

From: Walker, Jed S <Jed_Walker_at_cable.comcast.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:50:09 +0000
Message-ID: <BAA6E28B6241F046AED1E62D8697516C30229881_at_COPDCEXMB09.cable.comcast.com>



Don't you love Oracle! It is amazing how many things you find changed that aren't mentioned in docs or training.

I'm annoyed that they de-frocked the windows sqlplus client in 11g. They needed to have SQLDeveloper ready for prime-time before doing that (my main irk with SQLD is that it still doesn't handle expired passwords, otherwise it is a good tool for SQL)

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Peter Hitchman Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 3:15 AM To: oracle-l
Subject: Really annoying change to 11.2 sqlplus

Hi,
Letting off some steam here.
I just moved a Oracle client to 11.2, having done a set of tests with JDBC, PERL DBI, sqlplus etc etc. So far one shell script has had a problem, because it used the "-F" option with sqlplus, which has disappeared in the 11.2.0.2.0 version. Searching MOS I find that the "-F" was only ever there to workaround a bug whereby sqlplus was not failing over in a RAC situation and now that the bug is fixed the option is no longer needed. But the person or persons involved could of least just changed sqlplus to ignore the option/print a "deprecated" message, instead of removing it as a valid option so that the result is the usage message!

Regards

Pete
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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Tue Feb 22 2011 - 08:50:09 CST

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