From: John Hurley on
On Mar 10, 3:39 am, Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bor...(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

snip

> Try with 9.2: they are!

This was on the original post ... "connected to an Oracle 10.2" which
is what I believe Shakespeare was referring to with the "They never
were" part.
From: gazzag on
On 9 Mar, 23:25, Shakespeare <what...(a)xs4all.nl> wrote:
> They never were....
>
> Shakespeare-

Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>set ORACLE_SID=XXXXXX

C:\>sqlplus / as sysdba
Usage: SQLPLUS [ [<option>] [<logon>] [<start>] ]
where <option> ::= -H | -V | [ [-L] [-M <o>] [-R <n>] [-S] ]
<logon> ::= <username>[/<password>][@<connect_string>] | / | /
NOLOG
<start> ::= @<URI>|<filename>[.<ext>] [<parameter> ...]
"-H" displays the SQL*Plus version banner and usage syntax
"-V" displays the SQL*Plus version banner
"-L" attempts log on just once
"-M <o>" uses HTML markup options <o>
"-R <n>" uses restricted mode <n>
"-S" uses silent mode

C:\>sqlplus "/ as sysdba"

SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.8.0 - Production on Wed Mar 10 13:10:57 2010

Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.


Connected to:
Oracle9i Release 9.2.0.8.0 - Production
JServer Release 9.2.0.8.0 - Production

SQL>
From: John Hurley on
On Mar 10, 8:13 am, gazzag <gar...(a)jamms.org> wrote:

snip

> Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
> (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.
>
> C:\>set ORACLE_SID=XXXXXX
>
> C:\>sqlplus / as sysdba
> Usage: SQLPLUS [ [<option>] [<logon>] [<start>] ]
> where <option> ::= -H | -V | [ [-L] [-M <o>] [-R <n>] [-S] ]
>       <logon>  ::= <username>[/<password>][@<connect_string>] | / | /
> NOLOG
>       <start>  ::= @<URI>|<filename>[.<ext>] [<parameter> ...]
>         "-H" displays the SQL*Plus version banner and usage syntax
>         "-V" displays the SQL*Plus version banner
>         "-L" attempts log on just once
>         "-M <o>" uses HTML markup options <o>
>         "-R <n>" uses restricted mode <n>
>         "-S" uses silent mode
>
> C:\>sqlplus "/ as sysdba"
>
> SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.8.0 - Production on Wed Mar 10 13:10:57 2010
>
> Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>
> Connected to:
> Oracle9i Release 9.2.0.8.0 - Production
> JServer Release 9.2.0.8.0 - Production
>
> SQL>

The OP posted 10.2 in the original post in this thread.
From: John Hurley on
On Mar 10, 8:35 pm, joel garry <joel-ga...(a)home.com> wrote:

snip

> > The OP posted 10.2 in the original post in this thread.
>
> And Shakespeare said "they never were" and gazzag showed they
> were.
>
> Thread drift happens, deal with it.

Unless Shakespeare replies back hard to know for sure if his reply was
specifically targeted to the posting by the OP.

I thought almost everyone in the Oracle DBA world realized that the
double quotes were gone after version 9. It certainly was talked
about a lot back then.
From: gazzag on
On 11 Mar, 11:01, John Hurley <johnbhur...(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Unless Shakespeare replies back hard to know for sure if his reply was
> specifically targeted to the posting by the OP.
>
> I thought almost everyone in the Oracle DBA world realized that the
> double quotes were gone after version 9.  It certainly was talked
> about a lot back then.

Nothing like filling the thread with idle speculation though, eh?

-g