RE: Oracle database version history

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-----Original Message-----
From: MacGregor, Ian A. [mailto:ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 9:19 AM
To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: Oracle database version history


As I recall the in 6.0 the TPO, Transaction Processing Option, became =
part of the core product and not an extra cost add-on.  Those sites =
which had TPO previously were given  the procedural option for free, =
those which did not have TPO previously had to pay for the procedural =
option.

Declarative constraints were introduced in v6, but they  were not fully =
functional.  You could not drop a table which had a primary column =
referenced by a foreign key column, but you could delete rows in the =
primary key table which were referenced by rows in the foreign key =
table.  The referential integrity documentation did not acknowledge =
this.  It was written as if RI was fully functional

Ian MacGregor
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: Mercadante, Thomas F [mailto:thomas.mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 4:52 AM
To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: Oracle database version history


Version 6 did so have stored PL/SQL.  I know I created many many stored =
packages, procs and functions in 6.2.  And I also used OPS in a VAX =
cluster (two Vax servers, one database).  Ran just fine, thank you.

And why did Oracle go from version 6.0 directly to 6.2 (skipping 6.1)? =
Anybody?

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional


-----Original Message-----
From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:wisernet100@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 5:48 AM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Oracle database version history


hot backups were version 6 not 5... 6 was a major rewrite... introduced =
rollback segments, tablespaces


--- Tim Gorman <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> How the heck did Tanel manage to learn so much after being born in
> 1978? Because he didn't have to listen to disco...  :-)
>=20
>=20
> on 1/29/04 7:19 PM, Mladen Gogala at mgogala@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>=20
> >=20
> >> Oracle 5 - 1986
> >>  - Client Server
> >>  - Cluster support (VAX)
> >=20
> > Nope. Cluster  wasn't supported with V5. Cluster support came with
> > Oracle 6.2. That was the first OPS version and was VAX/VMS-only.
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> [TG]: Mladen, sorry to contradict, but Tanel is correct.  V5 had the
> first clustered database on VAX/VMS.  Wasn't pretty, but it had a=20
> pulse...
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> V6.2 was indeed the first version of the Parallel Server product,
> available originally on VAX/VMS and later on NCR Unix.  Had a=20
> financial services
> company here in Denver using V6.2 OPS on NCR (crazy bahstahds).=20
> Naturally,
> I wanted to hire the DBA out of sheer admiration...
>=20
> >=20
> >=20
> >>=20
> >> Oracle 6 -1989
> >>  - Online backup & recovery
> >>  - Row level locking, stored PL/SQL
> >=20
> > Nope. PL/SQL  wasn't stored in V6, it was executed in SQL*Forms30,
> > if anyone still remembers the good, old INP files instead of the=20
> > stupid *.FMB stuff.
>=20
> [TG]: Sorry to contradict both of you, but the PL/SQL that was
> available in the database server was not stored, and it wasn't only=20
> available in SQL*Forms.  It was available in the database server as=20
> "anonymous" blocks
> (i.e. starting with BEGIN or DECLARE keywords) in v6.  In v7 came
> packages,
> procedures, and functions;  in v6, you created big ol' SQL*Plus
> scripts to
> run them the "anonymous" blocks.
>=20
> Mladen is correct that procedures in PL/SQL were available in
> SQL*Forms v3.0 and SQL*ReportWriter v1.x also, on the client side...
>=20
> >=20
> >>  - Parallel Server
> >>=20
> >> The rest you know ;)
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> Well, for those who don't know, here are some more milestones...
>=20
> More for Oracle6 (1989):
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>     - hot backups (not certain about this -- could have been v5)
>=20
> v7.0 (1992):
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>     - basic replication (a.k.a. snapshots)
>     - stored PL/SQL packages, procedures, and functions
>     - database triggers
>     - direct-path SQL*Loader
>     - cost-based optimizer
>     - the Shared Pool in the SGA
>=20
> v7.1 (1994):
>     - parallel queries
>     - parallel direct-path SQL*Loader
>     - parallel index creation
>     - parallel instance recovery
>     - Symmetric (multi-master) replication
>     - the Large Pool in the SGA
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> V7.2 (1995):
>     - parallel CREATE TABLE AS SELECT
>=20
> v7.3 (1996):
>     - parallel INSERT /*+ APPEND */
>     - bitmap indexes
>     - partition UNION-ALL views
>     - ALTER INDEX REBUILD
>     - Oracle Enterprise Backup Utility (OEBU)
>     - Standby Database
>=20
> v8.0 (1997):
>     - range partitioning
>     - Recovery Manager (RMAN)
>     - INSTEAD OF triggers on views
>     - REVERSE indexes
>     - parallel UPDATE and DELETE
>=20
> v8.1 (1999):
>     - hash partitioning
>     - composite range-hash subpartitioning
>     - DDL and database-event triggers
>     - materialized views and query rewrite
>     - function-based indexes
>=20
> ...to name a few...
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