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Post #25,470
by tuberculosis
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1/24/02 12:16:11 PM
8/21/07 6:02:54 AM
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This is an oracle db?

Did you know Oracle keeps saying they are dropping support for C libs and only want to support JDBC client libs going forward? Would this screw you up?

The average hunter gatherer works 20 hours a week.
The average farmer works 40 hours a week.
The average programmer works 60 hours a week.
What the hell are we thinking?
Collapse Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 06:02:54 AM EDT
OT Question
This is an oracle db?

Did you know Oracle keeps saying they are dropping support for C libs and only want to support JDBC client libs going forward? Would this screw you up?

The average hunter gatherer works 20 hours a week.
The average farmer works 40 hours a week.
The average programmer works 60 hours a week.
What the hell are we thinking?
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Post #25,510
by admin
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1/24/02 1:50:30 PM
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New Didn't know that.
Yes, it would completely fuck us up. Of course, we're still on 8.1.7, and they have the support in 9.X so far, so we're good for at least another year. :-)

I find it hard to believe they'd drop that, though. WAY too much Pro*C stuff out there.
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #25,531
by wharris2
1/24/02 2:29:08 PM
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New Au contraire!
I find it hard to believe they'd drop that, though. WAY too much Pro*C stuff out there.

I can give one example that is somewhat similar. Informix dropped support for their C-language API libraries in the early or mid 90's. (They had support for embedded SQL, but the people using their application language library were out of luck - except to scramble to convert everything to embedded SQL, another language, or another database.)

Granted, by that time Informix (once a leader in databases) was falling increasingly further behind Oracle, so their decision probably effected far fewer people, and I suppose most of their customers were probably using a 4GL rather than C, but at least one fairly major database player *has* done something like that.

Come to think of it, it is a bit odd that they got rid of an API interface entirely; I know DB2 has one and obviously Oracle still has one - at least for a while. Doing things like that may have been one reason they completely fell apart in the late 90's.
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
-- Donald Knuth
Post #25,554
by admin
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1/24/02 3:29:57 PM
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New Oracle I think is a different situation
Informix was much smaller, and as you say, they didn't survive.

I'd like to see a link (Todd) that references them giving up the C interface.
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #25,579
by wharris2
1/24/02 4:56:12 PM
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New Taking it to databases
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
-- Donald Knuth
     The danger of overspecialization. - (marlowe) - (34) - Jan. 20, 2002, 06:51:58 PM EST
         Been awhile... - (ChrisR) - (1) - Jan. 20, 2002, 11:00:31 PM EST
             Go with the flow - (nking) - Jan. 21, 2002, 12:33:22 AM EST
         speaking of smalltalk has anyone heard from fearless lately? -NT - (boxley) - (1) - Jan. 21, 2002, 01:42:00 PM EST
             Yep. - (Steve Lowe) - Jan. 22, 2002, 12:54:18 AM EST
         The flip side of the coin, however.. - (tjsinclair) - (4) - Jan. 22, 2002, 12:22:36 AM EST
             Tailored resumes. - (marlowe) - (3) - Jan. 22, 2002, 01:10:00 PM EST
                 Absolutely - (tjsinclair) - Jan. 22, 2002, 02:47:10 PM EST
                 It is a lot of work. - (static) - (1) - Jan. 23, 2002, 05:42:25 AM EST
                     That's the reason I've never done it...lazy, I guess -NT - (tjsinclair) - Jan. 23, 2002, 03:34:43 PM EST
         Similar problem. - (static) - (24) - Jan. 22, 2002, 05:23:58 AM EST
             C is kind of presumed. - (marlowe) - (23) - Jan. 22, 2002, 01:20:46 PM EST
                 No its not - (tuberculosis) - (21) - Aug. 21, 2007, 05:54:34 AM EDT
                     OT: Your Pic - (pwhysall) - (2) - Jan. 22, 2002, 02:39:04 PM EST
                         Re: OT: Your Pic - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2007, 05:57:32 AM EDT
                             Re: OT: Your Pic - (pwhysall) - Jan. 23, 2002, 04:41:32 PM EST
                     Pointers scare me a bit, too. - (marlowe) - (17) - Jan. 22, 2002, 05:30:08 PM EST
                         Depends on the language - (ChrisR) - (1) - Jan. 22, 2002, 05:46:55 PM EST
                             See that, Barry R? See? Muahahahaha... :-) -NT - (CRConrad) - Jan. 23, 2002, 07:37:17 AM EST
                         Scare me, too - (wharris2) - (14) - Jan. 22, 2002, 06:26:00 PM EST
                             pointers don't scare me - (nking) - (13) - Jan. 22, 2002, 09:27:06 PM EST
                                 One problem - (wharris2) - Jan. 22, 2002, 10:07:31 PM EST
                                 Pointers don't cause buffer overrun holes. - (marlowe) - (11) - Jan. 23, 2002, 09:42:18 AM EST
                                     You're arguing for Java - (tuberculosis) - (10) - Aug. 21, 2007, 05:57:39 AM EDT
                                         No - (ben_tilly) - (8) - Jan. 23, 2002, 01:28:38 PM EST
                                             You've completely confused me. - (tuberculosis) - (7) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:00:41 AM EDT
                                                 Interesting C biz programming... - (admin) - (5) - Jan. 23, 2002, 08:28:33 PM EST
                                                     OT Question - (tuberculosis) - (4) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:02:54 AM EDT
                                                         Didn't know that. - (admin) - (3) - Jan. 24, 2002, 01:50:30 PM EST
                                                             Au contraire! - (wharris2) - (2) - Jan. 24, 2002, 02:29:08 PM EST
                                                                 Oracle I think is a different situation - (admin) - (1) - Jan. 24, 2002, 03:29:57 PM EST
                                                                     Taking it to databases -NT - (wharris2) - Jan. 24, 2002, 04:56:12 PM EST
                                                 There shouldn't be any confusion - (ben_tilly) - Jan. 23, 2002, 10:33:43 PM EST
                                         What Ben said. - (marlowe) - Jan. 23, 2002, 01:55:54 PM EST
                 Mmm. I dunno. - (static) - Jan. 23, 2002, 05:41:12 AM EST

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