Re: Could you help me ? SQL Server or Oracle ?

There are many different parameters involved.

1. Big database. How big is big? SQL Server does not have some data types that handle large objects that Oracle has. MS claims that SQL 7 can handle DB more that 2GB files and up to TERABYTES??? Only few facts support this at this point in time.
2. Money? For five licenses SQL server is less expensive.
3. Does reliability is critical for your app? SQL 7. is improved ( Memory Management ), but there is no long term observation data on how it behaves in production (it is new database) vs Oracle that has a long history of being reliable and high performance DB. In addition SQL Server 7 does not have reliable backup/recovery capability yet.

Regards,
Michael

In article <77iqr0$qcs$5_at_front1.grolier.fr>, "Samuel Villeneuve" <svillen_at_club-internet.fr> says:
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>I'm a french trainee.
>My project is about to manage a database with an application for several
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>I will manage a big database on a server (probably a Windows NT server).
>I think about SQL server or Oracle. I don't know which one is better
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>the price, the capabilities.
>The application will be developped with a software as Visual Basic.
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>Thanks for your help.
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Received on Thu Jan 14 1999 - 16:18:13 CST