and here they want to be "database independent"
sigh. it's for a content management system --- "Toepke, Kevin M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree, it looks messy and confusing... However, I found an example > that > makes it a little easier to understand. > > http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:1062923::NO::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID, > F4950_P8_CRITERIA:3099475696866,%7Banydata%7D > > My guess it was implemented for 2 reasons > 1) to say they have every feature as M$ > 2) to support 3rd party vendors porting stuff from M$ > > Kevin > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 1:35 PM > To: Toepke, Kevin M; Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Kevin, > > Looks messy to me, and damned confusing to boot. > > Dick Goulet > > "The more you overtake the pluming the easier it is to stop up the > drain." > > Scotty of Star Trek, Search for Spock. > > ____________________Reply Separator____________________ > Author: "Toepke; Kevin M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 7/17/2002 9:58 AM > > Rachel > > Check out the SYS.ANY datatype in Oracle 9i (from the SQL reference). > Me > thinks its what SQL server would call a variant data type. > > Follow this link for more info > http://download-east.oracle.com/otndoc/oracle9i/901_doc/appdev.901/a89852/to > c.htm > > Kevin > -------- > The "Any" types provide highly flexible modeling of procedure > parameters and > table columns where the actual type is not known. These datatypes let > you > dynamically encapsulate and access type descriptions, data instances, > and > sets of data instances of any other SQL type. These types have OCI > and > PL/SQL interfaces for construction and access. > > > SYS.AnyData > This type contains an instance of a given type, with data, plus a > description of the type. AnyData can be used as a table column > datatype and > lets you store heterogeneous values in a single column. The values > can be of > SQL built-in types as well as user-defined types. > > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 1:09 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Okay, I'm working on what feels like 30 new projects all at once and > I > WILL be RTFM'ing as soon as I can get more than 5 minutes out of > meetings but.... > > > first: has anyone heard of any problems with 64-bit Oracle on a > Solaris 64-bit OS? > > second (and this one confuses me a bit)... I've been asked if > Oracle9i > supports a "variant" datatype -- they are not familiar with oracle > but > are familiar with SQL Server and say that there is a datatype called > "variant" there where you can basically overload the column with > whatever datatype you want (string, number, date) and the database > knows what type of data it is storing within the column. They > referred > me to C++ and Java, neither of which I know. > > Can anyone point in the right direction to start researching this? > > Thanks! > > Rachel > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! 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