Re: Flameless Advice Please...
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 20:46:09 GMT
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In article <84qmtf$sb6$1_at_news.NERO.NET>,
"Jeff D. Hamann" <hamannj_at_ucs.orst.edu> wrote:
><snip>
> So I guess my questions are (and not knowing anything about Oracle):
>
> 1) Does Oracle have some kind of VBA language?
PL/SQL - certainly comparable to doing dataset manipulation
in VB. It's based on the Ada syntax so is straightforward
to learn, and can execute SQL statements natively.
> 2) Can Oracle call DLLs with user defined data types?
Don't know about the user-defined data types, but it can
certainly call DLLs. If nothing else, I'd think you could pack
your user-defined data types inside large binary chunks.
> 3) Does Oracle run under NT and Linux equally well?
Don't know about Linux, but comparing NT and Solaris there
seem to be few differences, assuming you have plenty of
memory on your NT machine. Just to start the database requires
about 180MB of RAM on my NT machine (on top of the 50MB or
so my NT configuration normally requires). So plan on *at least*
256MB RAM on your NT machine, probably more for the size
of datasets you're using.
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Received on Mon Jan 03 2000 - 21:46:09 CET