Path: news.easynews.com!core-easynews!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!cyclone1.gnilink.net!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!news2.euro.net!lnewspeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!lnewspost00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!not-for-mail From: "Niall Litchfield" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server References: <0YQDa.80$6f6.10489976@newssvr15.news.prodigy.com> <6mRDa.56640$DV.79745@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net> Subject: Re: Can Someone Point Me At Some Whitepapers Comparing Oracle to M$$QL$erver?? Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 11:54:30 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3ee072e6$0$18493$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: host9.audit-commission.gov.uk X-Trace: 1054896870 reading.news.pipex.net 18493 193.128.236.219 X-Complaints-To: abuse@uk.uu.net Xref: core-easynews comp.databases.oracle.server:188852 X-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 03:53:47 MST (news.easynews.com) "Stephen Ferracioli" wrote in message news:nBVDa.3095$%b3.182@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com... > > "Jim Kennedy" wrote in message > news:OJUDa.85526$M01.46741@sccrnsc02... > > Then why did you post looking for information? > > Jim > > Just want to be see if there were compelling reasons for me to make an > effort to convince them otherwise. Haven't really found anything too > compelling. At this point is an executive were to ask me if I have any > doubts about it, I'd say that my biggest concern would be a worm program > attacking a production database system. But no matter what I do, I'm afraid > that I will be perceived as just trying to save my own job. Their production > database is around 100Gb right now and growing around 1Gb per week. The BW > data warehouse is around 40Gb and will probably double in size within a year > as more subject areas are brought in. My biggest concern would be scalability and reliability of sqlserver at those sorts of data volumes. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA Audit Commission UK