Jared, I think you have a case for at the very least getting credit for your work.
It's one thing for someone to see what you've done and use the functionality like you did. It's completely something else for someone to lift all the code verbatim without even changing a comment. It just shows laziness on the Oracle analyst part. What really bothers me is that it implies the person did not even test it. If they are lazy enough to steal it, what does it say about testing procedures? Go get'em. You deserve accreditation. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 3:13 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dear list, I found something rather interesting on MetaLink today. While doing a little research on UTL_FILE, I came across document # 1050919.6. This document deals with how to dump a table to an ascii file. http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_datab ase_id=NOT&p_id=1050919.6 I began to think the code looked a little familiar. Then I saw the temporary file name of '_dtmp.sql', which was rather reminiscent of file names I use. Further perusal revealed that the comments were written by yours truly, and match word for word those I added to the dump.sql script years ago. See for yourself: http://www.cybcon.com/~jkstill/util/zips/dump.sql I don't know whether to be flattered or upset. Jared -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jared Still INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Mercadante, Thomas F INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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).
