Re: Need Comparisons of Oracle 7 and Sybase 10

: > Interesting point. So for anyone who wants to use Oracle
: > in this way, they MUST go out and buy a high end SUN or
: > equivalent ? I don't think so. Try telling this to
: > the small or mid sized company that wants the power,
: > security and robustness of an Oracle or Sybase database
: > but does not have the resources to administer another
: > box running UNIX or NT.
 

: > There are tons of shops out there running Oracle on Netware.
: > The recent crap about Oracle on Netware being more
: > unstable than its UNIX counterparts is just that, crap.

  Oracle on and SFTIII (the fault tolerant version of netware)   has a serious problem. If the operating system redirects a disk   block to the hot fix area, the database will corrupt. According   to Oracle, the only solution to this problem is to export the   whole database and then reimport it. This is not acceptable in   a 7x24 situation. Oracle says it's a netware problem, Novell   says they are not sure, but no-one has fixed it yet.

: >
: >Rich Holowczak
: >Rutgers University
: >holowcza_at_andromeda.rutgers.edu

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Davide Gaetano
sysdfg_at_gsusgi2.gsu.edu