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Re: Oracle8/NT vs MS SQL 7.0

From: Ralph Ganszky <ralph.ganszky_at_sap-ag.de>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 09:05:53 +0200
Message-ID: <37B120D1.45581C3@sap-ag.de>


Hi Yuri,

I have never seen that big difference between MS SQL 7.0 and Oracle8. My experiences are that the sizes are comparable. What table definition and index definition will create such a difference?

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Best Regards,

Ralph Ganszky

Yuri Khait wrote:

> I've found that it takes 3-4 times more disk space to store the same
> amount of data(including indexes) in Oracle8 than in MS SQL 7.0 I could
> not find any documents which compare disk storage on Oracle and MS SQL
> 7.0. I have 60GB database on MS SQL 7.0, according to my tests it will
> take > 200GB in Oracle.
> Any comments ?????
>
> Tnx,
> Yuri.
Received on Wed Aug 11 1999 - 02:05:53 CDT

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