Oracle date/time vs ingres date/time??

Dear all,

we are considering moving from Ingres to Oracle in the near future.

We've been looking at all this, ingres' many files and tables against one Oracle "space" where all is contained, btree against extra indexes, etc. the most pressing thing, tho, is TIME. we store many time-related datapoints (30 second resolution data from an ICU), and will need to do time/date arithmetic. if that is not possible or even hard to do, we gotta look elsewhere.

so, how does Oracle stack up? the market is swinging wildly to you guys, so it can't be too bad... ;-)

Jim

i'll post a summary in one week.

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