Re: newbie queston: why would anyone use Oracle?

"PJ6" <nobody_at_nowhere.net> wrote:

> I don't know what scale "up" or "out" means. I keep hearing "scaleable" when
> people talk about databases, but this word means nothing to me - I haven't
> designed any that needed to run on multiple servers, and the size has never
> exceeded 4Gb or 150 users.

For that amount of data and users, you should look at some of the open source offerings, which are well able to cope with this type of data. What is your development environment?  

> Aside from maybe being better equiped to scale, does Oracle have other
> advantages?

An extremely powerful procedural language - PL/SQL, runs on *nix, partitioning (for large amounts of data), + lots more.

Paul...  

> Paul
 

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