Re: Oracle Webserver Experiences

From: Lane Sharman <sharman_at_dsr.com>
Date: 1996/04/11
Message-ID: <4khncq$98p_at_taurus.adnc.com>#1/1


summersd_at_teleport.com (David Summers) wrote:

>I am interested hearing from anyone actually using the Oracle Webserver
>(preferablythe new 2.0 version).If we buy it, will we wish we had come up with
>another solution? We are being led to believe that a major advantage is the
>ability to call PL/SQL directly and avoid overhead. Is this reality or
>'market-speak'?

In my view, this is largely market-speak. The PL implementation from Oracle does not support streamed I/O; rather there is a function call for nearly every HTML operation. In summary, your processor and pages are going to show poor performance characteristics. Consider Oraperl. I have developed some fabulous private networks using this tool.

>We intend to use the web access for low to medium volume use (10-200 clients
>with casual access) on an intranet datamart. This will probably be a secondary
>access point: we expect the primary access to be SQL*Net/ODBC to PC based
>spread sheet/database/other tools.
Received on Thu Apr 11 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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