ufi,  user friendly interface.  Boy I feel old now

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>OK Keith, do you remember what the prompt was that SQL*Plus came up with back
>them & what it stood for??
>
>Dick Goulet
>
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>Author: Jan Pruner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date:       5/17/2002 8:03 AM
>
>Yes, I can. 
>4 years ago I was porting our product to MS SQL 6.5 platform.
>
>JP
>
>On Fri 17. May 2002 16:53, you wrote:
>
>>ever wonder why SQLPlus is so damn robost?  It can do
>>just about anything... in a messy and time consuming
>>way sometimes, but it is rock solid.
>>
>>"About 15 years ago, Sqlplus WAS Oracle".  Nothing
>>else.  Hard to imagine.  An Oracle engine with nothing
>>inside (just tables and indexes):
>>no procedures,
>>no packages, package body, functions
>>no triggers
>>no sequences (can you imagine... this came with V6)
>>no ref constraints
>>no 2-phase commit
>>no snapshots, no snapshot logs
>>no parallel server
>>...
>>
>>can you imagine!  and it was already the most powerful
>>database server growing at >100% year over year (100%
>>growth for 13 years in a row)
>>
>>I mean "can you imagine"  SQLPLUS "was" ORACLE....can
>>you in your wildest dreams imagine what this group
>>would be like?... just SQLPLUS related issues.... "can
>>you imagine"....;-)
>>
>>Keith
>>
>>
>>
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