Re: moving to Oracle need recomendations...

>You should NOT (I repeat: NOT) 'port' a sqlserver app to Oracle.

seen that happened to someone - was total hell. Must say I have to agree with the "NOT".

"Sybrand Bakker" <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message news:hfhoqucf8kr1nun7fq0g4cm37gnotd8q0p_at_4ax.com...
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:53:20 GMT, "Bill Lucas" <WCLucas_at_coolblue.com>
> wrote:
>
> >I have already found the Concepts manual referred to in this news
> >group, but I was wondering if more targeted information might be
> >available for my particular situation. I have been an MS DBA for the
> >last two years, and our company has recently released a SQL Server
> >version of our application. Due to high customer demand we are
> >getting ready to port our application for an Oracle 8i back end. I am
> >digging through the concepts manual and starting to familiarize myself
> >with the differences in nomenclature and structure. I will need to
> >move on to some administrative stuff so I can come up to speed on
> >Administrative tasks, Enterprise Manager and other such things.
> >
> >I was hoping someone here might be able to recommend additional texts
> >to help me in the following areas.
> >
> >1. Administer Oracle and configuring Enterprise Manager
> >2. Porting T-SQL Code to PL/SQL
> >3. Returning Result sets in explicit XML Format (our middle tier
> >consumes XML which is then returned to the client)
> >4. General Security information especially in regards to Windows NT
> >Security integration.
> >
>
>
> 1 The Oracle Server Administrators Manual
> 2 the PL/SQL reference manual and the Application Developers Manual
> 4 Net8 Administrators manual and the NT specific manual.
>
> You should NOT (I repeat: NOT) 'port' a sqlserver app to Oracle. It is
> NOT going to work. You'd better read the book by Thomas Kyte,
> especially the first three chapters, and return from your route to
> HELL.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
>
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Received on Tue Oct 15 2002 - 23:20:27 CDT