Re: newbie queston: why would anyone use Oracle?

From: Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:04:33 -0400
Message-ID: <3piqt4Fai9igU2@individual.net>

David Portas wrote:
> 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).

.. and then there is the DRDA standard.

>>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.
*chuckle* Yep, reminds me on MS calling anything but Intel "proprietary architectures".

Cheers
Serge

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Serge Rielau
DB2 SQL Compiler Development
IBM Toronto Lab

Received on Fri Sep 23 2005 - 12:04:33 CDT