Dimitri Rotow wrote:
> "Hans Forbrich" <forbrich_at_bad_address..net> wrote in message
> news:3FC3ABD3.9D67B6A4_at_bad_address..net...
>
>>Dimitri Rotow wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>There are lots of nuances, such as finding the nearest neighbor of
>
> various
>
>>>candidates that may fall within the allowed epsilon. My advice is that
>
> it
>
>>>would be a lot faster to simply buy a tool that does all this for you.
>
> If
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>>>you are doing this on a one-time basis, consider Manifold. At $245 it
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> will
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>>>do all this for you and allow you to use elementary spatial SQL. See
>>>http://www.manifold.net
>>>
>>
>>Not quite sure how this improves on using 'SDO_NN()' that's available
>>free in Oracle9i Standard as well as Enterprise
>
>
> Probably by costing a few thousand dollars less than Oracle9i Standard or
> Enterprise, if he doesn't have it in the Oracle version he has at hand. I
> don't know what the Oracle cost is to upgrade Oracle 8.1.7.4 to 9i, but I
> bet it costs a lot more than the $245 cost of Manifold... but then, that's
> just a guess. Anyone know the real price?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dimitri
Bad guess. If support contract is current the cost is $0.
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Received on Sat Nov 29 2003 - 00:46:33 CST
