Niall Litchfield wrote,on my timestamp of 3/03/2009 5:48 PM:
can anyone tell me when this first came out - I'm guessing between v7 in 1992 and v8 in 1997, probably in 7.3.4 but would really like a definitive answer
I was doing it with v6 in 1990. ;) Anyways, from a vague memory, I'd say 8 and 1997. It might have been announced somewhere in the long v7 lifecycle but it'd have been impossibly buggy to use then. Still is in some platforms, but that's a different story... -- Cheers Nuno Souto in sunny Sydney, Australia dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l