Re: Oracle versus MS Sql Server

"Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-family_at_home.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:xYBC7.1580$ib.998751_at_news1.sttln1.wa.home.com...

> Databases differ from vendor to vendor. No they really do, they are not
> commodities. How they handle concurrency (some handle it well some
poorly)
> , cursors (client side vs server side), and many many more. These are
> application architecture issues. I agree with Galen, you are designing an
> application to use the lowest common denominator and ignoring the dollars
> the customer spent on their database.

Interesting point. I do understand that.

It is about the same as a software, which is written for many plattforms at the same time, without using the specific operating system's potentials - as for example ... Oracle Enterprise Manager?

> My guess is you avoid using host variables. (which is going to
> make scalability go down the tubes and no DBA can fix.)

I do not quite understand, what made you guess this. Maybe it's my not-so-perfect English. Sorry.

My programms are only targeted at the MS Windows plattform. So my way of talking to the database is through OLE/DB. I do not know a reason, why this might hinder me in accessing the database in a performing way. I do not know much about Oracle database administration, but you can be sure that I do know OLE/DB's capabilities and that I use all of them in the correct way.

Michael G. Schneider Received on Sat Oct 27 2001 - 13:30:26 CDT