Personal Oracle Lite: No PL/SQL!

Ouch!

In the Feb 5, Vol 30, issue of Computerworld, page 46,

the article indicates that the first version of

Personal Oracle Lite (POL) will NOT support PL/SQL. You can only

use generic SQL statements. Also, POL lacks the rollback or

recovery capabilites. Double Ouch! Wonder what

happens when the POL crashes on your PC.

Just wondering if anyone is using POL yet? What are you using to

access the database ...Oracle Personal Object..forms 4.5..etc?

Patrick

  Patrick Housholder

  United Airlines Flight Training Center TK-71

  32nd and Quebec Street

  Denver, CO 80207

  email: housholder_at_ualfltctr.com

  "My views not United's"

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> We are currently developing applications using Forms 4.5 in

> a Windows 3.1 environment. We use Oracle 7.2.2 and 7.0.16

> databases.

> We have been loading the forms on a central Novell server.

> We're concerned about the time it takes for the initial Forms 4.5

> (Runform) (login) window to come up. It can take from 15 seconds

> on a Pentium (75MHz & 32MB RAM) to 30 seconds on a 486 (50MHz & 16MB

> RAM). The performance does not change dramatically when the forms

> are placed on a local Novell server or even on the local hard drive.

>

> Is this performance to be expected? Is there anything we can do

> to improve this? We've been told moving from SVGA to VGA will help,

> but that's not always acceptable.

>

> Any suggestions would be appreciated.

>

> Linda

> Montgomery

> MONTGOM_at_CLEMSON.EDU

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