Re: Accessing OracleDB from Linux

From: Bjorn Borud <borud_at_guardian.no>
Date: 1997/11/26
Message-ID: <m24t4zzgkt.fsf_at_lucifer.guardian.no>#1/1

["Günter Gersdorf" <G.Gersdorf_at_tu-bs.de>]

|

| You have no chance without SQL*Net. ODBC, Perl's DBD:: and DBI::
| packages or any other database interface has to use it!
| Unfortunately, there is no SQL*Net fro Linux (AFAIK)

generally you should avoid using Oracle if you need portability or if you are going to access the database from the web. Oracle is too expensive, it is too messy and it is too slow. you won't get decent performance unless you invest a lot of time and money.

for most database uses related to the web a server like Solid will generally do the job much better. as opposed to Oracle, the creators of Solid seem to have grasped that it is important to create good client support, and above all: to make sure that the database can be accessed from as many platforms as possible without extra cost or overhead.

I installed Solid on a Linux machine. then I accessed it from the same Linux machine, other linux machines connected to the net and finally from an NT machine. it worked right out of the box and it was simple to set up. it also handled rapid connects/disconnects gracefully without swamping the system. within a few hours I had connectivity to the database both from Perl and PHP.

Oracle aren't taking the users seriously, so why the heck should the users take them seriously.

have a look at http://www.solidtech.com/

-Bjørn

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Received on Wed Nov 26 1997 - 00:00:00 CET