Comments on: Back to the future (Oracle 4.1 VM appliance)

By: Frank Computer

Frank Computer — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:34:54 +0000

anyone know where I can obtain a copy of Oracle 5.X Professional developer for MS-DOS with SQLPLUS, SQL*FORMS,
SQL*REPORT, LOADER, MENUS ? I have an INFORMIX-SQL 2.10.06 (DOS) app I would like to rewrite with ORACLE 5.X

frankcomputer@live.com

By: Mucahid Uslu

Mucahid Uslu — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:54:38 +0000

We are still using forms 3.0 at some projects
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By: Marco Gralike

Marco Gralike — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:10:43 +0000

See for extra info on order by mechanism handling NULL values the link pointed out by Frank on Tom Kytes blog (http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2006/09/dbforum-2006-in-past.html).

As Tom always mentions (TEST, TEST, TEST). I double checked it (with commit and reverse insert of the values) and the behaviour shown is correct.

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:13:52 +0000

As can be seen from Thomas Kytes blog, Mogens NÃ¸rgaard seems to have a copy of the docs. See http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2006/09/dbforum-2006-day-2.html

[Marco] Frank pointed out that the link should be http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2006/09/dbforum-2006-in-past.html and indeed the are some nice pictures.

By: Agustin

Agustin — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:08:42 +0000

Hi all,
I’m interested in a MS-DOS vmware appliance to install some old software other than Oracle.
Do you have a link to download such file?
Thanks in advance.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 21:36:31 +0000

Hello, I was sent this link from a fellow member on the Oracle-L list. Basically, I misplaced/tossed my DOS PC Versions of Oracle 4, 5, and 6 (in this version I still have 12 utils/sql/etc disks but not the actual database disks). I would like to get them back if someone has them. This is just for personal use. I know I can download a free and more recent version but I enjoyed working with the earlier versions.
These screenshots bring back memories. So if anyone can help, you may email me directly (theguru00@excite.com), thanks.

By: William Robertson

William Robertson — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:12:30 +0000

I mentioned subqueries because I read the following in Dave Ensor’s chaptor in “Oracle Insights – Tales Of The Oak Table”:

“Oracle’s SQL implementation has moved on a great deal since, but the key step in Version 5 was the implementation of subqueries, which were simply not recognised by the Version 4 parser.”

Also mentioned as new features in Version 5 are database links and encrypted passwords. It might be interesting to query SYSTEM.USERS.

By: Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:43:07 +0000

Thank you Marco, for your cooperation on this matter. Due to the
possible presence of third-party software (which you may not have
the right to redistribute), it simply is the safest course to simply share
your experiences, but not the software itself.

By the way, subqueries were implemented in Version 2 (1981) of Oracle.
The correlated subquery format came later …

By: Marco Gralike

Marco Gralike — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:05:50 +0000

This blog entry has changed its contents on kind request by Ken Jacobs. The reason is that it would endanger a project, that i as oracle database enthousiast, would never ever would or want to jeopardize.

By: William Robertson

William Robertson — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:06:40 +0000

Is it true that subqueries were a new feature in Oracle 5? It’s be nice to see a screenshot of one not being recognised in v4.

I’d also be interested if anyone could resurrect a v6 database or Forms 3 and see whether the mythical Implicit Cursor Second Fetch thing ever had any truth in it.