Oracle, in a Real Application Clusters configuration, can run multiple
instances against one database.
- Wolfe Stephen S GS-11 6 MDSS/SGSI <Stephen.Wolfe_at_macdill.af.mil>
wrote:
> I think I understand what you have said, Oracle runs an instance per
> database where MSSQL is one instance running multiple databases. Is
> this right thinking?
>
> v/r
>
> Stephen S. Wolfe, GS-11, DAFC
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Grant Allen [mailto:grant_at_towersoft.co.uk]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:19 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: RE: Oracle to MSSQL conversion?
> >
> >
> > > Maybe now is a good time for me to ask these question since it is
>
> > > related to this thread's subject, can you say that an
> > Oracle instance
> > > is essentially the same as a MSSQL database? I ask this because
> a
> > > MSSQL server can support multiple databases which can be
> configured
> > > different
> > > ways.
> >
> > But there are more things that the SQL Server database has
> > controlled by its instance than things it can set itself
> > (e.g. performance parameters, security settings, user sort
> > space, processor affinity, connection handling etc. etc. are
> > all instance settings). It's more accurate to say that an
> > Oracle instance is closer to a SQL Server instance than a
> > database, but is by no means exactly the same. Oracle just
> > doesn't have the concept of multiple database support in one
> > instance (and I mean database, not schema). That's not
> > necessarily a bad thing, just means they are different to SQL
> > Server (and DB2, Informix, Sybase and others which all have
> > this). I'll stop there ... enough people on the list have
> > heard my rant about this before :-)
> >
> > Ciao
> > Fuzzy
> > :-)
> >
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