Re: What's behind the scene in a database

Hi Mikael,

Mikael Osterhed schrieb:
> Hi, I just wanna ask you a question which I think many of us are not aware
> of and which might be of interest to many of us visitors here at
> comp.databases.oracle.misc
>
> "What's behind the scene in a database ?" and what makes Oracle the
> prime-choice..
>
> ... I guess it receives my statements and then
> treat/translate these through its calls and functions. Someone told me that
> writing a database, I mean a database from scratch, is one of the most
> difficult things a programmer can do..
I think the main impact is to realise a bullet-proof reliability within your transaction control and storage system. Scanning and parsing is much easier to build up.

> Anyone who can "educate" me in regard to my above mentioned enquires or
> share a link where I can read about it ?

In one of last projects i used Firebird which is a spin of from Borlands Interbase database system. It is good and reliable RDBMS with a history of more than 10 years (on the Interbase side) and a lot of installations (I've heared that the stock exchange transaction system in Moskow / Russia and the car pool management system of Microsoft in GB works with Interbase).
You can join the developers group and some newsgroups and download the complete sources from firebird.sourceforge.net. The developers of Interbase have founded a new company named IB-Phoenix (www.ibphoenix.com) to continue the development of Firebird. They usually answers very quickly to questions posted in the newsgroups. But it would be hard stuff for you to understand what's happening inside.

Regards
Michael Gast Received on Wed Sep 18 2002 - 03:22:03 CDT