Xref: alice comp.databases.oracle:73483 Path: alice!news-feed.fnsi.net!priori!newsfeed.concentric.net!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-feed1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!inet16.us.oracle.com!jpnews01.jp.oracle.com!146.56.169.32 From: "Ken Mizuta" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle Subject: Re: Oracle Vs Access Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 15:06:16 +0900 Organization: Oracle Corporation. Redwood Shores, CA Lines: 28 Message-ID: <35cd36be.0@jpnews01.jp.oracle.com> References: <35C9A004.B454550F@barlocher.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Don't even try to compare Oracle to Access. Although they may both be databases, they are not used for the same purpose. You question: Is Oracle user friendly. Answer to that question is an emphatic no. However, MS Access could never handle the size of database that Yahoo!, for instance, has to work with. Yahoo! would never consider using Access as their database. And I would never consider using Oracle as my database of choice for my personal address book. What do you need a database for? After you have answered that question, look at the price of each of these two databases and then think about that question again. info@barlocher.co.uk wrote in message <35C9A004.B454550F@barlocher.co.uk>... >Im thinking of retaining into Oracle from Access. Does anyone have >experience of both and that would be able to tell me what Oracle is like > >in relation to Access. Is it user friendly? how does in compair against >Access with regards to the database market? Any ideas on the future of >Oracle? Any ideas welcome. Thanks. >