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Re: Personal Oracle vs MS Sql Server

From: <anon5f6b_at_my-dejanews.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 09:30:01 GMT
Message-ID: <7fs2uo$mmk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>


Does Personal Oracle work in a production environment. i.e. on a single machine with say, an IIS server. Can it handle say, 10 concurrent connections from the server to the database.

Thanks.

In article <MPG.117997e914d275f398968c_at_news.mindspring.com>,

  charlesm1NOSPAM_at_rocketmail.nospam (Charles M) wrote:

> In article <ZsKP2.5469$tY1.3467_at_wbnws01.ne.mediaone.net>,
> jonsmirl_at_mediaone.com says...
> > Why bother with paying for the database? Use the free version of Sybase
> > 11.0.3 on Linux. It is a version of the full enterprise class Sybase
> > database and it is free for development and deployment. Check out
> > http://linux.sybase.com or it comes with all of the recent Linux
> > distributions.
> >
> > Sybase is very compatible with MS SqlServer since at one point they were the
> > same product. This is the full enterprise version of the database and it is
> > very fast. I'm running in 128MB of RAM without any problems.
> >
> > I'm running Apache/Perl/ODBC/Sybase on Win95 and Apache/Perl/Sybase(native)
> > on Linux. WinNT is too slow to bother with.
> >
> > --
> > Jon Smirl
> > jonsmirl_at_mediaone.net
> >
> Well, since he first asked about Oracle and SQL server (is that anything
> like a database?), it might be mentioned that you can download Oracle on
> Linux (for development work) for free off Oracle's technet.oracle.com
> site. I believe you can also purchase a CD either free or for about 5
> bucks. The Linux version is basically like a full Unix Oracle server, so
> if you are familiar with Oracle on Unix, its the same setup/operation on
> Linux. If you need a full blown license, that will be more expensive (in
> line with typical enterprise license costs).
>
> Personal Oracle (on win98 and NT) is pretty much complete, but it is a
> single user version that (on win98) does not allow for multiple homes or
> SIDs. An install on NT will allow multiple SIDs, but make sure you have
> the getadmin fix from microsoft or Net8 and other Oracle, Java based
> utilities will not run (java.exe shows up in task manager, but no
> windows pop up). You can develop in it fine and move the resulting work
> to a full scale Oracle server when you are ready. You can also connect to
> remote servers, replicate, etc. I'm not sure about JDBC (I've use PO8 for
> development, but not for Java based work), but PO8 comes with all the
> rest that you mentioned.
>
> CMM
>

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