RE: Oracle database version history
- From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Oracle-L Freelists <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 07:17:20 -0800
I recall being charged extra for PL/SQL when we purchased 7.0.12
Jared
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 06:19, MacGregor, Ian A. wrote:
> 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]
> 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... :-)
> >
> >
> > on 1/29/04 7:19 PM, Mladen Gogala at mgogala@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >> Oracle 5 - 1986
> > >> - Client Server
> > >> - Cluster support (VAX)
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > [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
> > pulse...
> >
> > V6.2 was indeed the first version of the Parallel Server product,
> > available originally on VAX/VMS and later on NCR Unix. Had a
> > financial services
> > company here in Denver using V6.2 OPS on NCR (crazy bahstahds).
> > Naturally,
> > I wanted to hire the DBA out of sheer admiration...
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Oracle 6 -1989
> > >> - Online backup & recovery
> > >> - Row level locking, stored PL/SQL
> > >
> > > 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
> > > stupid *.FMB stuff.
> >
> > [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
> > available in SQL*Forms. It was available in the database server as
> > "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.
> >
> > 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...
> >
> > >
> > >> - Parallel Server
> > >>
> > >> The rest you know ;)
> >
> > Well, for those who don't know, here are some more milestones...
> >
> > More for Oracle6 (1989):
> >
> > - hot backups (not certain about this -- could have been v5)
> >
> > v7.0 (1992):
> >
> > - 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
> >
> > 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
> >
> > V7.2 (1995):
> > - parallel CREATE TABLE AS SELECT
> >
> > v7.3 (1996):
> > - parallel INSERT /*+ APPEND */
> > - bitmap indexes
> > - partition UNION-ALL views
> > - ALTER INDEX REBUILD
> > - Oracle Enterprise Backup Utility (OEBU)
> > - Standby Database
> >
> > v8.0 (1997):
> > - range partitioning
> > - Recovery Manager (RMAN)
> > - INSTEAD OF triggers on views
> > - REVERSE indexes
> > - parallel UPDATE and DELETE
> >
> > v8.1 (1999):
> > - hash partitioning
> > - composite range-hash subpartitioning
> > - DDL and database-event triggers
> > - materialized views and query rewrite
> > - function-based indexes
> >
> > ...to name a few...
> >
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