Re: V7 connectivity from a PC
Date: 17 Aug 1994 19:54:11 GMT
Message-ID: <32tpt3$lqv_at_nlsu110.nl.oracle.com>
Barry Roomberg (barry.roomberg_at_compudata.com) wrote:
: I wish. I'm going from V6->V7, and V7 uses about 700KB more
: memory per user, which = around 20MB on my 32 user system.
Are you measuring the client (application) or the server (database) side ? You might measure an increase in executable size, but in Oracle almost all executables are shared text, so will only be stored in memory once. I have talked to a few customers who have upgraded an existing application from v6 to Oracle7, and could run more efficiently in the same amount of memory.
: One way to get the memory down would be to use the multi-threaded
: server aspect of V7, but that requires SQL-NET. Since I'm not
: in a networked env, I don't have it now and would need to purchase
: it. Turns out that it costs TWICE as much as a fully loaded new
: computer system!!!! I'll probably end up with a new system instead.
: It's incredible that Oracle forces us to upgrade, touts the wonders of
: MTS, and then makes us buy additional products such as SQL-NET which
: have NOTHING to do with the kernel functionality in order to even
: run it!!! I'm gonna think long and hard whenever recomending Oracle
: to a client!
I have to contradict this! YOU DO NOT NEED TO BUY SQL*NET TO RUN MTS. When you run MTS in a standalone situation (i.e. host-based), you do need to install some of the SQL*Net v2 functionality (the installer will do this for you), but NO LICENSE IS NEEDED. This is a common misunderstanding.
Sandor Nieuwenhuijs
Oracle Netherlands
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