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Oracle Weirdness?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Fri, 12 Jan 2001 03:55:53 GMT
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My wife works for the shipping department of a local company, and recently the
company as a whole switched to Oracle as a software platform. I don't know
anything about Oracle, but my wife tells me that now, instead of the 6-digit
account number she used to enter for each department's cost code, Oracle
requires a 41-digit number! Can anyone verify this? That seems absurd to me,
since a credit card is held to be adequately secure with just 14 digits, and
bank accounts often have less than that. Is this 41-digit thing a choice by
someone higher up in her company, or is it a function of Oracle itself?
Dave!
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| (...) Would have to hear more about what exactly they switched to in order to answer... the ORACLE(tm) DB doesn't impose any particular requirements (it's a tool, not a solution). But ORACLE has solution products as well, such as ORACLE Financials, (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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