Re: [SPAM] 10gR2 Upgrade .. Watch out

Quoting "Daniel W. Fink" <daniel.fink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:


> If the result sets contain the same data, but are returned in a 
> different order (without an explicit ORDER BY) between releases, I don't 
> think that is a bug. You simply cannot rely on behaviour that you do not 
> explicitly code to address.

and that is precisely why there are so many shops
out there running very old releases of Oracle and no
plans whatsoever to upgrade.  Because what they have now 
works.  And they are virtually assured by Oracle when they 
upgrade the rdbms, the blessed thing WILL break their 
applications.

Any wonder why it takes so long for the user community 
to adopt new releases of Oracle?    QED.

What Oracle folks keep forgetting is that no one 
buys their product to look at it: the idea is to run
applications and hopefully address business needs.  
If those break when an upgrade comes along, then 
they don't buy into the upgrade. Simple as that.  

And why I keep banging on the real world anvil as
opposed to the ideal one.

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