Re: Oracle database version history

They didn't "skip" 6.1;  I believe that it was a version specific to some
modifications for a single project at AT&T...


on 1/30/04 5:51 AM, Mercadante, Thomas F at
thomas.mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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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