Stephane,
I'll add your friend onto the addressee list as I've had to delve into some
of her concerns & they are valid.
As far as a init.ora parameter that you mentioned I don't remember one in
any version of Oracle & I've been at this since Oracle V3. A check on Metalink
also came up negative. Now there is a parameter for the PRO* precompilers
called "sqlcheck" which can be set to ansi and a few others (full, semantics,
none, limited).
Now to your friends point, Oracle is using PL/SQL & Java (Sun's variant) for
stored packages, triggers, functions, etc... Other RDBMS vendors may either not
support this functionality or do so via there own proprietary methods (I believe
SQL*Server does it via VB like stuff). Therefore there is a definite
possibility that they may firmly link themselves to Oracle as their only
database vendor or have to maintain separate code bases for these types of
items, one for each db vendor. Not exactly an Oracle problem, but I believe
that's the dark side of "standardization".
Dick Goulet
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Date: 1/31/2001 2:40 AM
On Oracle 7.x there used to be an init.ora parameter
"sql_ansi" or something that you could set true/false
in order to know if your sql code was ansi compatible
or not.
Unfortunately, this parameter doesn't exist on 8i.
For sure, portability is the opposite of performance.
Having your application to work on many rdbms will
prevent you to have the Oracle only features.
Or you can build a driver per rdbms in order to used
each rdbms functionnalities.
Hvae fun !
--- "Seley, Linda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit�:
> Our Java users are concerned that there may be a
> possibility that their code
> may have to work on top of a variety of databases.
> We use Oracle in-house
> but we, theoretically, may sell our product to
> another company that uses
> something else besides Oracle. Our product would
> then have to talk with
> their database. What, then, are the advantages and
> disadvantages of using
> views, procedures, triggers, etc. What would buy us
> the most portability?
> What headaches might we just have to deal with
> because there is no way
> around it?
>
> Any insights would be greatly welcomed. Feel free
> to email me privately at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thanks!
>
> Linda
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