Serge Rielau apparently said,on my timestamp of 24/09/2005 3:04 AM:
>>> 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".
You didn't read properly, did you?
<chuckle>
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Nuno Souto
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Received on Sat Sep 24 2005 - 01:06:31 CDT
