Re: Oracle 8i or 9i vs SQL Server

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:34:54 +1000, "Richard Foote" <richard.foote_at_bigpond.com> wrote:

>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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Read the first three chapters of Tom Kyte's book. It contains a comparison of the transaction and the concurrency models of the two systems. This is basically the
readers don't block writers in Oracle vs readers do block writers in Sqlserver

Hth

>

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address Received on Wed Jul 17 2002 - 12:03:12 CDT