> I saw their announment today and they said they have Oracle compatiblility. > > What exactly does this mean? They don't go into any details. Did > they implement a Oracle compatible proc language or something? I believe you are correct. It's probably safer to say "they have implemented a more nearly Oracle compatible procedural language." You can get /some/ feel for it by looking at the recent release notes... <http://www.enterprisedb.com/releasenotes.do> - They have a "DUAL" table (a table guaranteed to have 1 row) - You don't need the full function argument "signature" in order to drop a function; just name the function - They seem to have added in a SYS user You can download version 8.0.3.12, which presumably includes some amount of documentation... -- (reverse (concatenate 'string "moc.liamg" "@" "enworbbc")) http://cbbrowne.com/info/ If we were meant to fly, we wouldn't keep losing our luggage. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly