Re: Oracle Vs Access

I believe he asked about "retraining". Since I have no knowledge of ACCESS I really
could not compare the two. But oracle runs also runs under unix, has a larger share of
the market and runs on more platforms. So retraining would be a good idea, not only
in oracle but also unix.

Dennis

Ken Mizuta wrote:

> Don't even try to compare Oracle to Access. Although they may both be
> databases,
> they are not used for the same purpose. You question: Is Oracle user
> friendly.
> Answer to that question is an emphatic no. However, MS Access could never
> handle the size of database that Yahoo!, for instance, has to work with.
> Yahoo! would never consider using Access as their database. And I would
> never
> consider using Oracle as my database of choice for my personal address book.
>
> What do you need a database for? After you have answered that question, look
> at
> the price of each of these two databases and then think about that question
> again.
>
> info_at_barlocher.co.uk wrote in message <35C9A004.B454550F_at_barlocher.co.uk>...
> >Im thinking of retaining into Oracle from Access. Does anyone have
> >experience of both and that would be able to tell me what Oracle is like
> >
> >in relation to Access. Is it user friendly? how does in compair against
> >Access with regards to the database market? Any ideas on the future of
> >Oracle? Any ideas welcome. Thanks.
> >
Received on Thu Aug 13 1998 - 15:53:43 CEST