Re: MILLION DOLLAR CHALLENGE FROM ORACLE

IBM bought it.

"David Pomphrey" <High.Flight_at_btinternet.com> wrote in message news:3AF5C46A.3E03_at_btinternet.com...
> What happened to Informix, eh?
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> D.P.
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> Obnoxio The Clown wrote:
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> > On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Mark Townsend wrote:
> > >in article 3ad40e47.2871849_at_news-server, Nuno Souto at
> > >nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam wrote on 4/11/01 1:07 AM:
> > >
> > >> On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 04:24:23 GMT, Mark Townsend
> > >> <markbtownsend_at_home.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>> Oracle9i Data Cache is an Oracle9i Application Server feature (iAS).
 It's
> > >>> available now and works against an Oracle8i Database.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> Bugger! You mean I can't use it on a normal 9i database (no web)?
> > >> Darn! there goes my cunning 3-tier performance plan. :-)
> > >> Oh well roll on 9i and let's see what's really inside it then!
> > >> Couldn't care less about OAS caches, quite frankly. Data or page.
> > >> Still, a nice idea.
> > >>
> > >Sorry - should have been clearer - you can use the Data Cache with any
> > >Oracle client - web, forms, reports, Pro*C, ODBC, what have you. You
 have to
> > >install Oracle9i Application Server to do so, however (Note: Not
> > >OAS).
> > >
> > >So logically it looks like Client -> Data Cache -> Database (8i or
 9i).
> > >Physically this can be 1,2 or 3 tiers, although having the Data Cache
 on the
> > >same box as the Database doesn't make much sense.
> > >
> > >I'm pretty certain that the first release only caches data from one
 back end
> > >database - i.e any distributed queries are performed at the database
 end,
> > >not in the Data Cache.
> > >
> > >The other cache in Oracle9i Application Server, the Web Cache, does
 cache
> > >only HTML. So it looks like: Browser -> Web Cache -> JSP/Dynamic
 HTML/Static
> > >HTML -> Data Cache (optional) -> Database
> > >
> > >Confused ?
> >
> > Not as confused as the parent of those kids you're supposed to be
 babysitting
> > .. :-)
Received on Sun May 06 2001 - 20:06:39 CDT