Re: Help - Oracle or MS SQL with BEA ?

From: Neil Pike <100577.553_at_compuserve.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:30:59 GMT
Message-ID: <VA.000040b7.02fa2800@compuserve.com>

Percy - the dbms doesn't care what sort of drivers/client you connect with - in SQL server's case it just sees TDS packets which is all it understands.

They're both great products, but most eval's show SQL Server is easy to use/maintain. (SQL Server has the world record tpcc benchmark now on any platform)

> I am evaluating whether it is better to use Oracle 8i on NT or MS SQL
> 7.0 on NT while using BEA (and JDBC drivers) as the middleware.
>
> My primary concern is performance, maintainability and easy of use.
>
> I already have a few thoughts on this, but if someone can share their
> thoughts/experiences, I would appreciate it.

Neil Pike MVP/MCSE. Protech Computing Ltd (Please reply only to newsgroups)
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 or www.mssqlserver.com/faq

Received on Tue Mar 14 2000 - 03:30:59 CST