Re: SQL server Vs Oracle

  While Oracle is a good solution I think the answer is SQL. I have both environments in our enterprise and the disadvantage is Oracle. Planning and developement generally come with a large disadvantage.. Oracle dba's in my experience have ego's that are dwarfed only by the consulting pricetag that comes with them. It is not an out of the box solution and odds are you wont get through a deployment strategy without someone trying to sell you an "X" type platform for true scalablity and the admin service with it. Think about this: NT 4.0 box with hardware level raid, put the sql databases on different disks than the OS. The disks the database lie on should be raid 1 for best throughput. Use the MS upsizing tool for access and move a copy of the access db into sql, recreate a few forms and links and see what you come up with. If you have a resource on your staff that understands MS software in general, the documentation is relatively easy to follow. Spend a few days in an MS training class and give it a go. Don't get sold on a mystical solution that only an outsider understands, hired guns are just that, and have generally little loyalty to the company the are working for this week....

Eric

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