Re: Large Table supporting DBs

Other databases with 'similar' capability are IBM DB2, Informix (now part of IBM), Sybase (this was the original SQL*Server until Microsoft split off SQL*Server on NT) as well as the free MY*SQL

If you look at the prices very, very carefully, you'll find they are all roughly equivalent. Oracle 'Standard Edition' has a lot of the same capability as SQL Server Enterprise edition and is fairly comparable in price. In addition, Oracle can be licensed by 'power unit' - MHz of your machine - or by user.

If you are not sure, call in the sales reps for each of the databases & let them duke it out on price.

Dave wrote:

> Oracle is obviously quite an investment for a small business if not
> completely necessary, but other databases like Access and FileMaker only
> have support for small tables (well, FileMaker doesn't really use tables).
> I've heard SQL-Server is along the same lines as Access.
>
> What, if any, are comparible databases with Oracle as far as support for
> 'large tables'. The tables I will be working with will have about 50+
> columns and hundreds of thousands of rows.
> ------
> Dave
Received on Sun Apr 29 2001 - 23:19:24 CDT