Re: SQL vs Oracle

In article <6h485j$699$1_at_castor.dnai.com>, Neil Mira <sales_at_apexnetwork.com> wrote:
>We are trying to select the appropriate RDMS for
>a project in which the most important data will
>be text of a variable length. We expect to have 1MB
>of character data in this field in a given record, and maybe more.
>Is it true that the Context Option in Oracle makes that a
>more appropriate choice. especially if we may have to
>perform functions such as count words and manipulate data
>in this record?
>
>In the next revision of the database later this year,
>we also intend to add unicode. Although Oracle supports
>this now, by the time we need to use unicode, it seems
>MSSQL v7.0 will be out and that is expected to support unicode.

Basing production code on vaporware is rarely a good idea. "Supported" and "Working and debugged" are two different things."

>
>thanks in advance,
>Neil Mira
>pls reply: mira_at_netcom.com
>

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