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Re: Can Someone Point Me At Some Whitepapers Comparing Oracle to M$$QL$erver??

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 11:54:30 +0100
Message-ID: <3ee072e6$0$18493$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net>


"Stephen Ferracioli" <ferracioli_at_101freeway.com> wrote in message news:nBVDa.3095$%b3.182_at_newssvr16.news.prodigy.com...
>
> "Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-downwithspammersfamily_at_attbi.com> wrote in message
> news:OJUDa.85526$M01.46741_at_sccrnsc02...
> > Then why did you post looking for information?
> > Jim
>
> Just want to be see if there were compelling reasons for me to make an
> effort to convince them otherwise. Haven't really found anything too
> compelling. At this point is an executive were to ask me if I have any
> doubts about it, I'd say that my biggest concern would be a worm program
> attacking a production database system. But no matter what I do, I'm
afraid
> that I will be perceived as just trying to save my own job. Their
production
> database is around 100Gb right now and growing around 1Gb per week. The BW
> data warehouse is around 40Gb and will probably double in size within a
year
> as more subject areas are brought in.

My biggest concern would be scalability and reliability of sqlserver at those sorts of data volumes.

-- 
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
Received on Fri Jun 06 2003 - 05:54:30 CDT

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