Re: datawarehouse

To balance this argument, check out the SQL Server 7 White Paper in the Services..Data Warehousing section of out site at www.os-integration.com.

Mick Horne
OS Integration (IIS) Ltd

Breno de Avellar Gomes <brenogomes_at_ieee.org> wrote in message news:375DA80F.B97D681F_at_ieee.org...
> I recommend Oracle8. Major reasons include:
> 1) long time experience with large databases.
> 2) proven performance and reliability
> 3) Oracle8 specifics, such as table partitioning, tables and indexes spam
> over several physical disks and operating systems.
> 4) not limited to Windows.
> 5) Oracle Discoverer 3.0 offers powerful features to build extraction
> tables and very flexible navigation tools, freeing developers to deal
> with back end.
> 6) Discoverer is Relational OLAP. If you need multidimensional databases
> you can use Oracle Express Server and Oracle Express
> Objects.
>
> I am currently involving in data warehousing projects using Oracle. If you
> need more details, links, white papers and first impressions feel
> free to contact me.
>
> Best regards
>
> Breno Gomes
>
> Cen Mei wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to setup datawarehouse, current I am planning to evaluate
> > oracle and sql server.
> >
> > I would like to hear about the pro and con of oracle and sqlserver to
> > implement dataware house. the inital database approx about 100 GB and
> > will grow.
> >
> > I belive oracle dataware house product has a utility to extract data
> > from different data source and schedule it to run automatically, does
> > sql server has a similar facility?
> > I need to do data extraction from AS/400.
> >
> > I am quite new to sql server that I have not try to create 100 GB
> > database in sql server before, I'd like to hear what is the performance
> > like for sql server on reasonable big database compare to oracle.
> >
> > I appreciated if you could e-mail me the feedback at
> > hkusumo_at_elixir.com.au
> >
> > no flame mail, please.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > - Haris -
>
Received on Wed Jun 09 1999 - 02:42:04 CDT