Re: Oracle 8i or 9i vs SQL Server

Richard:

There is some good info here:

http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:::::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID:351248463 2553

and also check out Tom Kyte's Expert One on One book - at the beginning he talks about differences like this.

HTH,
Tom Best

"Richard Foote" <richard.foote_at_bigpond.com> wrote in message news:9heZ8.37175$Hj3.109754_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> Hello All,
>
> I'm currently doing some work for a client who are a MS shop through and
> though (so much so that even their houses have windows). However they've
> just purchased a 3rd party product that only runs on Oracle and have no
idea
> how to set it up. That's where I come in.
>
> However, as part of the skills transfer process what would be very handy
> would be to have a comparison between the two products (so I can speak
more
> in their speak so to speak). I do have some doco on this (most of it
> marketing oriented), I've seen the Oracle white paper that focuses on
> performance differences and read various bits and pieces but I was
wondering
> if any of you clever folk out there might have a doco or link to something
> that nicely summarises the main architectural and feature differences
> between the two.
>
> I *DON'T* want to start another war over this (Oracle is better, no it's
not
> SQL Server can do that just as well, rant rant rant). I also appreciate
> they're not exactly apples and apples (and that's probably why I haven't
> found quite what I'm after).
>
> Any help would be muchly appreciated.
>
> Richard
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Received on Wed Jul 17 2002 - 08:51:33 CDT