Re: Personal Oracle vs MS Sql Server

I could be wrong, but doesn't Personal Oracle only handle one connection at a time('personal')?

check www.oracle.com to make sure

anon5f6b_at_my-dejanews.com wrote in message <7fs2uo$mmk$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>Does Personal Oracle work in a production environment. i.e. on a
>single machine with say, an IIS server. Can it handle say, 10
>concurrent connections from the server to the database.
>
>Thanks.
>
>In article <MPG.117997e914d275f398968c_at_news.mindspring.com>,
> charlesm1NOSPAM_at_rocketmail.nospam (Charles M) wrote:
>> In article <ZsKP2.5469$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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Received on Wed May 12 1999 - 21:21:43 CDT