Re: Oracle8i, Microsoft

I think that the Oracle Concepts manual is actually a pretty good book for learning the basics of what Oracle can do.

The Oracle Press series which has Oracle's official blessing as a series of books has a basic book in it; I do not know the title, but if you find one of the advertisements for the series it will probably be listed. You can find a long list of books on Oracle related topics using the search feature at www.amazon.com

There are GUI tools that come with or can be purchased to use with Oracle like Enterprise Manager, SQL*Forms 5, SQL*Reportwriter, and most any third party product that have an Oracle ODBC driver.

Size of the load is a big determining factor for choosing between Oracle and MS-server as NT mostly runs on only small boxes. If you have a lot of concurrent users then you will may have to migrate to a UNIX SMP or NUMA box. Oracle scales from a PC to a mainframe and runs under Win95/98, NT, UNIX, VMS, and MVS OS's.
MS-Server is a capable system, but if you application needs tuning I know that Oracle's cost based optimizer gives you a lot of flexibility. It does take some practice, but so does rule based tuning of SQL.

Brian Green <article <6u9qjq$17c$1_at_camel15.mindspring.com>...
> I'm very new to Oracle. In fact, my company has grown large enough that
we
> are in the process of selecting a corporate database. Oracle vs. MS SQL
> server to be exact.

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> Are there any Getting Started guides for Oracle8? Preferably written
> outside of Oracle Corp. When can we expect Oracle8i to be released? Is
> everyone looking forward to the 8i version?
Received on Wed Sep 23 1998 - 11:58:27 CDT