RE: Anyone with experience with MMOG and databases?

>>I hardly can see a reason to choose Oracle

Wow, In one statement you negated Oracle to worthless software...impressive. To make a claim like that you must have intimate knowledge of all databases and all database features and options. You should be a consultant...or work for Gartner.

In my experience there have been very few times when I had to tell my boss or client Oracle that "Oracle can't to do that".

I did not have to say "Oracle can't to do that" when a client asked me to;

• find and pull past SQL transactions
• restore and recovery a database down to the second before error occurred
• replicate data between to databases
• have a synchronized hot failover database set up
• free the database of gigabytes of data within seconds at each month with over head
• run the database from 2 nodes
• audit end user db activity
• rebuild/redefine and objects online
• limit end user database resources
• support (con)text searching
• reference external object from with SQL code I could go on, and on and on.

If you have none of these or any other similar requirements then I too can see a reason to choose Oracle. I realize there is a market for MS-Access and Excel spreadsheets too.

But you know what really sucks...choosing and implementing a product only later to find a requirement that it can't do.

Chris Marquez
Oracle DBA

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