Re: Choosing a right database

Totally wrong!!!

I'm talking about Oracle Rdb (not Oracle 7, not Oracle 8). This database is very easy to maintain and give you state of the art performance. If you need true 24*7 availability, easy maintenance and very high performance, take a look at Oracle Rdb!!

And once again, I'm talking about Oracle Rdb, NOT Oracle8, NOT Oracle 7!!!

Regards,

Magnus Weiman

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Name: Magnus Weiman Company: Datalogikonsult AB http://www.datalogi.com mailto:magnus.weiman@datalogi.com S-mail: Box 52, S-590 79 VRETA KLOSTER, Sweden Phone: +46 13 68040 Fax: +46 13 68041 GSM: +46 70 7440806 Art S. Kagel <kagel_at_bloomberg.net> wrote in message news:37C15E0C.CE0DA8B4_at_bloomberg.net...
> I'm sorry if this starts an argument, it is not my intention, nor do I
> want to get into a p**sing match over features. However, I could not let
> such a patently false statement to go by.
>
> Magnus Weiman wrote:
> >
> > For this kind of workload, the best option would be Oracle Rdb. No other
> > RDBMS can offer the same performance and the same availability since
almost
> > every kind of database maintenance can be performed online.
>
> Ever try to move an Oracle table from one tablespace to another? Defrag
> an Oracle table? Alter a table to drop one or more columns? Does Oracle
> perform in-place Alter Table? I'm not saying Oracle is not maintainable,
> but the statement that 'almost every kind of database maintenance' can be
> performed online is not true. Informix has always been FAR more easily
> maintained in this way allowing one to do EVERY kind of database
> maintenance quickly and easily (OK the equivalent of TRUNCATE TABLE is
> DROP ....; CREATE...; but that's the only maintenance item I can think of
> that Oracle does better than Informix). On performance I'll post
> separately.
>
> Art S. Kagel
>
> > --
> > Name: Magnus Weiman Company: Datalogikonsult AB
> > http://www.datalogi.com mailto:magnus.weiman@datalogi.com
> > S-mail: Box 52, S-590 79 VRETA KLOSTER, Sweden
> > Phone: +46 13 68040 Fax: +46 13 68041 GSM: +46 70 7440806
> >
> > Alla Gribov <alla.gribov_at_metatel.com> wrote in message
> > news:37C004E0.24C40572_at_metatel.com...
> > > Hello all;
> > >
> > > First of all I am apologizing to all of you if you see this questions
> > > posted twice - I am having troubles with sending it.
> > >
> > > I need an advice from gurus of database design and development
> > >
> > > I am building a database that will have around 1 million users. At any
> > > given moment about 5,000 of them are connected to the database.
> > > The chosen database should be able to perform around 500 reads/writes
> > > per second.
> > >
> > > Is there a database that can support such a task and if yes, which one
> > > is the best in your opinion?
> > >
> > > My first thought was Oracle, but after doing some research on Web, it
> > > seems like that a lot of people prefer Informix over Oracle.
> > >
> > > Which would you choose (or may be there are some other databases that
I
> > > am not aware of that would suit better for this project) - no Sybase
or
> > > MS Sql-Server,
> > > sorry to people who like them???
> > >
> > > Your help is greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >

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> > >                                  Alla Gribov


> > >                        alla.gribov_at_metatel.com


> > > The greatest programming project of all took six days. On the seventh


> > > day the programmer rested. We've been trying to debug the thing ever


> > > since. Moral: design before you implement.

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