Re: Oracle licence question

Tony Rogerson wrote:

>
> Secure Application Roles are not included with Oracle Standard, but the
> equiv is with SQL Server Standard

Where is the doc citation for MS's equivalent of secure application roles ?

> Data Encryption is included with SQL Server Standard, it isn't in Oracle
> Standard

Data Encryption is in all editions of Oracle. It's just the transparent data encryption that isn't. SQL Server does not have transparent data encryption

> Advanced Security is not included with Oracle Standard, nor is Label
> Security - again, all can be achieved in SQL Server standard.

You cannot do Label Security (or build a virtual private database) with SQL Server.

> No messaging

Messaging is in all editions of Oracle Database

> There is a lot more missing too.
>
> So your statement above is just completely wrong and mis-leading.

Pot. Kettle. Black

>
> And then rant you make about the salaries, if you've really been in IT for
> 36 years then you'll have a better understanding of the market place and
> realise people swap platforms, take me; 5 yrs DB2, 6 months Oracle and 13
> years SQL Server and out of those 3 Oracle was quite definitely the hardest
> to work with (Oracle 7 i think it was).
>

I am seriously starting to believe that any difficulty you may have had with Oracle was more releated to an ability to understand what was written in the docs. I will be magnanimous and assume that this was purely the fault of the docs, for which I apologize. Received on Sun Feb 26 2006 - 14:13:54 CST