September 23, 2008

Oracle spotlights its datatype support

Oracle put out a flurry of press releases today in conjunction with Oracle OpenWorld. One, which was simply positioned as a report on some “mission-critical” customer apps, caught my eye because all four detailed examples involved nonstandard datatypes:

Categories: Data types, GIS and geospatial, Oracle, RDF and graphs 
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3 Responses to “Oracle spotlights its datatype support”

  1. rc on September 23rd, 2008 4:33 am

    Well, Oracle Spatial is mission critical for me and my customers. So this doesn’t suprise me.

  2. Curt Monash on September 23rd, 2008 4:57 am

    I was banging the drum about alternate datatypes in the mid-1990s. I.e., I was waaay early.

    So — what do you do with Oracle Spatial that’s most interesting or important? 🙂

    Best,

    CAM

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