XPost: comp.databases.oracle.server
From: holger.baer@science-computing.de
Noons wrote:
> Holger Baer wrote in message
news:...
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>>This is an excerpt from the docs on my prehistoric 8.0.6 CD for Windows:
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> Yeah, I believe you. Did a little "digging" myself and found
> out. I'll have to understand why TK is going for FBI rather
> than instead of. Doesn't make sense.
I believe in his book (which I haven't got at hand right now) Tom explains why,
maybe I get the chance for a little digging myself. My rather clumsy
recollection
is that this way you've declarative referential integrity and don't have to dig
through the code.
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>>Plus, after I moved to my current employer, I started to support an
application
>>that made heavily use of views with instead of triggers. They used 8.0.6 too.
>>And if I didn't force them, they would still ...
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>
> :) Takes all kinds, doesn't it?
> My last 8.0.6 was Feb 03. After I sent them
> a memo in early 01 explaining the dangers of staying
> with old releases, they finally decided to upgrade in
> Feb 03. Peoplesoft site. What else...
Take any customized software or worse, one of the famous home grown
applications
the customer wrote himself (and the original developers as well as the
documentation
are lost in the mist of time)... Oh, and in Feb 03 I could convince another
customer
at least to move from 7.3.4 to 8.1.6 which got finally disposed this summer.
Did I already tell that today(!) I was called because at another site their
hp-ux 10.20/ Oracle
8.0.4 server died? Lucky ol' us that we didn't support that one. Backups
exist. But no
Hardware to fix or replace the old one....
Cheers,
Holger
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