Flameless Advice Please...

From: Jeff D. Hamann <hamannj_at_ucs.orst.edu>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 09:39:57 -0800
Message-ID: <84qmtf$sb6$1_at_news.NERO.NET>



[Quoted] Now I don't want some ranting session about the virtues of Oracle vs Access [Quoted] on this platform or that, but....

I've been developing a VB application (I'm not new to coding and don't like [Quoted] the lack of control that VBA allows) and have been having some problems with [Quoted] data corruption, and unpredictable behavior with Access VBA and would like [Quoted] to investigate using another database for (if it possible) performing small [Quoted] programming tasks instead of using ODBC (or something equivalent) for producing lots of data for a simulator. Basically, I'm running lots of simulations, storing the data in Access (using VBA) and exporting the crosstab queries to run in another piece of software. Usually, I delete all [Quoted] the rows from the tables and repopulate with over 1000000 records. My database files (mdb) are about 120mb which is much larger than they should [Quoted] be even after compacting and my NT machine keeps telling me that I've run out of virtual memory. I need this thing to be not just good but VERY reliable because I can't stand up in court and say, "MSAccess wasn't doing [Quoted] what it was told."

[Quoted] So I guess my questions are (and not knowing anything about Oracle):

  1. Does Oracle have some kind of VBA language?
  2. Can Oracle call DLLs with user defined data types?
  3. Does Oracle run under NT and Linux equally well?

Thanks for the flameless advice,
Jeff.

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