Re: SQL Server vs Oracle

I second the motion for Oracle and I don't like Oracle much at all. But they have been doing it longer and better the microsoft and have a superior product--7.3 over 6.5. Where do you want to bet your business?

matt

Gary England wrote:

> gmanok_at_worldnet.att.net wrote:
> >
> > Our company is currently migrating from Mumps to Oracle databases for
> > our online transaction processing systems. We developed our first
> > product with Oracle 7.3.2 and all systems run on Solaris version 2.3 to
> > 2.5.
> >
> > We are going to develop a Downtime Monitoring system which shall notify
> > engineers of system unavailabilty and allow us to retrieve and record
> > system availability parameters and quantify system availibility through
> > reports.
> >
> > Our monitoring system will be client-server based. Each production
> > system (7 systems) will write system parameters to shared memory. The
> > client(s) will poll each production server every 30 seconds and write
> > the data to a database. The production systems are up approximately 16
> > hours per day 6 days per week. Each record will be under 1K and we
> > would like to keep 3 months of data. The client(s) will be a NT box(es)
> > to keep hardware costs lower than those of another Sun box. We own
> > licenses for Oracle and SQL-server.
> >
> > Barring licensing costs, what are the pros and cons of using SQL-Server
> > over Oracle and vice versa.
> >
> > Thanks in advance, Steve gmanok_at_worldnet.att.net
>
> All other bias aside, Oracle is a fully mature product. It has been out
> there much longer than SQL Server keeping all kinds of critical
> operations operating.
>
> In those rare cases where things go wrong I have experience a much more
> knowledgable and professional response from Oracle than from Microsoft.
>
> Having used Oracle for 12 years and SQL Server only since just before
> 6.5 was released I am biased toward Oracle. Especially with the
> stability problems I encounted with SQL Server in a large TCP/IP
> application.
>
> If you have both, test both. But use at least 5 ACTIVE client modules
> doing TRANSACTION updates before choosing. Make sure the COMMIT and
> ROLLBACK operations are functional.
>
> Good luck,
> Gary England
Received on Mon Sep 22 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST