Re: Which Should I Choose - Oracle or Sybase

In article: <3rlfga$19v_at_tibaldi.ahip.getty.edu> tulio_at_tibaldi.ahip.getty.edu (Tulio Hernandez) writes:
> Oracle supports Unicode, provides text search utilities (in the
> equivalent of TEXT fields), and the cursors are scrollable. On the
> other hand, their stored procedures are somewhat limited (they are
> unable to take parameters or return a status or they are not
> compiled; someone enlight me!)

        Oracle stored procedures can take parameters, they have out parameters. Stored functions return values and they are stored in a complied form in the database.  

> Based on the requirements of this project, should I abandon Sybase
> for Oracle?

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