Just as a side not:

He could not have possibly had been having an intercourse with MSSQL7 for 5 years, because the latter became available only at the end of 1998 (4 years max). As far as 2K goes, - I doubt his 9.2 can come close to the level of robustness 2K offers.


VB vs. Delphi? I respect Delphi developers, but stick to what I know best. ..and will do so for as long as my VB can make money :)

To Евгений Фадеев:

I work with DB2, IMS, AS/400, VAX VMS, and MSSQL of all flavors. My mentality is very adaptive in regards to what platform I am working with. You're somewhat correct saying that parameterized views is an alternative in Oracle. However, in order to accomplish what I can do in SQL in just one stored procedure, I have to make several calls to Oracle that will include a call to a stored procedure, a function, a view, and finally find out if everything is honky-dory. Also, I highly disagree with a row-level approach in an RDBMS, which is the only thing Oracle knows. For that purpose you might as well use a flat file. An RDBMS is a recordset-based technology, and I am afraid Oracle is an orphan child compared to other RDBMS's. Surely, it supports data partitioning, and was more scaleable back in MSSQL 4.2a/6.0 days. But even 6.5 has proven to be a very efficient business solution for small to medium size companies and saved them tons of money... Should I continue? And, BTW, I am driving both standard and automatic, and have no trouble handling them... And good luck promoting Oracle! Hope you get some royalties from them, otherwise it ain't worth it (IMHO).

To RatTail:

Do I want to buy a cow? Yes. Do you have any?