Re: new feature in ORACLE 9i

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Rauzier <marc.rauzier@netcourrier.com>
To: midrange-l@midrange.com <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 5:41 AM
Subject: RE: new feature in ORACLE 9i


>> Well, in DB2/400 we've got this cool new feature: it's called
>> journalling.
>
>Yes. A great new (since 1980 on S/38, I guess) feature :-)


actually, release 4.1 on S/38. That's about late 1983 timeframe.

and journalling is not new to Oracle, or many of the other database vendors.
It's the rollback and selectivity of rollback operations that's really new.
On the 38 and 400, you have been able to do that for more than a decade. But
the purpose of journals in other databases has been to bring the database
forward to a point in time, not erase a moment in the past.

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
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