DBMS "store and forward"
Date: 1996/10/08
Message-ID: <325AC12C.41C67EA6_at_aplexus.jhuapl.edu>#1/1
I'm on a project that is trying to decide between Oracle and MS SQL
Server (or even something else if we can justify it). I have no
experience with either (my DBMS background is in INGRES). The system
will have wide-spread client-server installations and some data will
have to be exchanged between servers. It looks to me like what is
needed is an application that sends a specified subset of the data
from one server to another under certain circumstances. It doesn't
seem to me like the sort of thing that needs all the overhead of
replication or a distributed DB. The project leader's favorite term
is "store and forward" and he wants a DBMS that will do this
automatically - store the data locally and forward it later when
communication becomes available. Is this something DBMSs, Oracle
especially, do these days? My DB experience is 5 years out of date.
The servers are PCs running NT.
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Mary Anne Espenshade
mae_at_aplexus.jhuapl.edu
Received on Tue Oct 08 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST