Re: ORACLE or SQL SERVER (MS) ?

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:18:20 +0100
Message-ID: <3f964b5e$0$250$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net>

"Hulse" <hulse_kevin_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:16926526.0310211828.1ac77033_at_posting.google.com...
> Erland Sommarskog <sommar_at_algonet.se> wrote in message
news:<Xns941C29886F12Yazorman_at_127.0.0.1>...
> > Daniel Morgan (damorgan_at_x.washington.edu) writes:
> > > Not sure if you can get SQL Server for free
> >
> > Not completely, but there is a 120-day evaluation version available.
> > See item 6 on http://www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/topdownloads.asp.
>
> It is quite easy to get free copies of Oracle. They will be
> unlicensed of course. However, you will be free to install
> and run them. They are not cripple-ware. They are the full
> installation packs. So you can use Oracle 9.2 EE for NT or
> Linux without limitation (barring SBA audits).

They are not unlicensed. You agree to a licence when you download them - basically non-commercial use so it fits the OP requirements for which is better to learn. Equally you cannot use them without restriction, the restrictions are however reasonable.

As far as learning MSSQL goes, I think that I would go with MSDE on the grounds that 120 days to learn a RDBMS is somewhat ambitious.

-- 
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission Uk

Received on Wed Oct 22 2003 - 04:18:20 CDT