Re: Which Should I Choose - Oracle or Sybase

From: Francisco Casas <fcasas_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: 1995/06/18
Message-ID: <3s0vl9$qbb_at_ixnews5.ix.netcom.com>#1/1


Oracle does not have scrollable cursors, they are only forward moving cursors. The only production database of any significant market share that supports this is Informix.

In <222428674wnr_at_artemis.demon.co.uk> "C:DEMONSPOOLMAIL" <tim_at_artemis.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
>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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Received on Sun Jun 18 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST

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