Re: Help - Oracle or MS SQL with BEA ?

Neil,

     Although you are correct that the DBMS does not care which drivers are used, the reliability and performance of the "system" is largely dependant on the drivers.

     Thanks for your vote on SQL server. How is the replication of SQL 7.0 ?

Thanks
Percy

In article <VA.000040b7.02fa2800_at_compuserve.com>, 100577.553_at_compuserve.com wrote:
> Percy - the dbms doesn't care what sort of drivers/client you connect
with - in SQL server's case it just sees TDS packets which is all it understands.
>
> They're both great products, but most eval's show SQL Server is easy
to use/maintain. (SQL Server has the world record tpcc benchmark now on any platform)
>
> > I am evaluating whether it is better to use Oracle 8i on NT or MS
SQL
> > 7.0 on NT while using BEA (and JDBC drivers) as the middleware.
> >
> > My primary concern is performance, maintainability and easy of use.
> >
> > I already have a few thoughts on this, but if someone can share
their
> > thoughts/experiences, I would appreciate it.
>
> Neil Pike MVP/MCSE. Protech Computing Ltd
> (Please reply only to newsgroups)
> SQL FAQ (420 entries) see
> forumsb.compuserve.com/vlforums/UK/default.asp?SRV=MSDevApps
(sqlfaq.zip - L7 - SQL Public)
> or www.ntfaq.com/sql.html
> or www.sql-server.co.uk
> or www.mssqlserver.com/faq
>
>

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