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Re: Oracle Weirdness?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Fri, 12 Jan 2001 04:18:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dave Schuler writes:
> 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?
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> Dave!
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, for
example. Is THAT what they switched to? OF is a package solution that has
been designed to work at a number of different companies of varying sizes...
so may well seem overly redundant in data entry and field sizes, etc.
++Lar
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| (...) I'll have to check with the Mrs for clarification, but I can tell you that her manager is a tool without a solution, so I don't know how much more info is available to my wife. I'll check. Thanks for your answer! Dave! (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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