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Re: newbie queston: why would anyone use Oracle?

From: David Portas <REMOVE_BEFORE_REPLYING_dportas_at_acm.org>
Date: 23 Sep 2005 02:48:54 -0700
Message-ID: <1127468934.138236.127740@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> 






Noons wrote:


> ever tried to join/use/merge/port two tables, one in a big-endian

> system and another in a little-endian one, with anything other

> than Oracle?




Many times. By using ODBC and OLEDB (which implement the standard SQL
datatypes incidentally).



> It may be proprietary, but it's as near to universal

> portability as it can get...




... as long as you don't need to leave the Oracle universe.



David Portas
Received on Fri Sep 23 2005 - 04:48:54 CDT












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