Re: my 2 cents

That is correct sir.
I am also a dba for a 400 table, non-normalized, 75,000 lines of code, what's broken today, paradox db.

I do believe once the db criteria has been accurately(yea right) determined. Cost is the most important factor. The systems job is simply to facilitate the business, dba, car mechanic, doctor,... its all the same.

Jerry Gitomer <jgitomer_at_erols.com> wrote in message news:38588067.25E919E0_at_erols.com...
> kevin moriarty wrote:
>
> > Christopher Boyle <cboyle_at_neoucom.edu> wrote in message
> > news:385796C7.C7B991B7_at_neoucom.edu...
> > > Have you heard of a tiny little company called NETSCAPE? How about a
> > language
> > > called SQL? Not to mention Informix, Mysql, etc. (I have heard too
many
> > horror
> > > stories about peoplesoft to include them) but most database
programmers i
> > have
> > > talked to would argue with you about access being included in your
list at
> > all
> > >
> > I use access to prototype applications; it is a faster, easier
development
> > tool for getting user requirements than oracle.
> >
> > access limitations:
> >
> > 15 concurrent users
> > 2 gig db size
> > few hundred thousand rows?
> >
> > if access = meet need
> > then use access
> > else
> > if sql server = meet need
> > then use use sql server
> > else
> > if oracle = meet need
> > then use oracle
> >
> > criteria:
> > development cost
> > license cost
> > maintenance cost
> >
>
> --
>
> I suspect you are a developer. A DBA's top three criteria are:
>
> Reliability
>
> More Reliability
>
> Even more Reliability
>
> regards
>
> Jerry Gitomer
>
>
> Once I figured out how to spell DBA I became one
>
>
>
Received on Thu Dec 16 1999 - 08:52:30 CST