June 29, 2005: On lifting the 255 character output limit of dbms_output

I am shocked! I've just learned that Oracle 10g relaese 2 won't have the 255 character output limitation anymore. They sure have wasted many many man years for such a useless feature. I mean, that would even render my procedure to prevent the dreaded ORU-10028 useless, wouldn't it?

Next, I fear, they will anounce that there'll be a history function in SQL*Plus.

And yes, for those that don't know me, I am being sarcastic here a bit.

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