Re: Development in Oracle and SQL Server simutaneously

Oracle has some published porting guides which give a pretty good summary of the differences between MSSQL 4.2 and Oracle. I'd try pushing my Oracle rep to get it to you.

David Longfield wrote in message <351A7CEB.3CCEE568_at_csb.co.uk>...
>At present our development is done on MS SQL server, and alot of
>possible customers are asking us about running it on Oracle instead. I
>have a few questions which I can't find answers to either on Oracles or
>M$ websites (I would have thought Oracle would have been desperate to
>make it as easy as possible to go from their mortal enemies SQL Server
>to Oracle).
>
>Can anyone point me in the direction of resources that will help me do
>this easily, webpages or cheap programs would be particularly useful.
>
>From what I understand some datatypes aren't quite the same (esp.
>datetimes) and stored procedures need slight amendments? Am I right in
>thinking these are the only problems?
>What would be a good starting book for me, seeing that I know SQL Server
>quite well, in a single server environment, with a basic(isn)
>unnormalised schema.
>
>Thanks and I know this is a bit vague and I realise that I need to go
>away and do some reading but at the moment I can't find anything to
>read!
>
>Dave.
>
>david.longfield_at_NOSPAM.csb.co.uk (remove the NOSPAM.)
>
Received on Thu Mar 26 1998 - 00:00:00 CST