I believe, fifteen years ago, it had already changed to SQL>. I'm also pretty sure that iag/iap had also already been introduced. OCI was definitely there and probably the Oracle pre-compilers for 3GL's as well. As someone who has been an Oracle DBA since 1984, I can only say Keith's understanding of the Oracle RDBMS, "'About 15 years ago, Sqlplus WAS Oracle' Nothing else." differs radically from the conventional view.
I believe the first responder was on track, with his "imbibing" query. Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 9:28 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L OK Keith, do you remember what the prompt was that SQL*Plus came up with back them & what it stood for?? Dick Goulet ____________________Reply Separator____________________ 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 > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience > http://launch.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jan Pruner INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: MacGregor, Ian A. INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
