Galen Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Jan 2007, damorgan_at_psoug.org wrote:
>> Serge Rielau wrote:
>>
>>>> I'm not quite sure I can agree that something violating Oracle's
>>>> advice, and generating an error, is a bug. At least not as long as
>>>> the word TIMESTAMP is present in gv$reserved_words.
>>> I wish my customers were as tolerant as you are....
>> When a company goes to the effort to put a reference of keywords into
>> their product then it becomes the obligation of the developers and
>> DBAs to use it.
>>
>> When you buy an car ... do you expect the dealer to teach you how to
>> drive it?
>
> If there are differences between the platform independent way of driving
> cars, I would expect them to tell me about it.
Fly to Europe.
Rent a car.
Don't expect anyone to put up English language road signs.
Or (UK) to teach you how to drive on the "wrong" side of the road.
Does that qualify? ;-)
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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Fri Jan 05 2007 - 14:18:08 CST
