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poldek wrote:
> Friend of mine told me about their project where they will have Oracle on
> Win (NT orXP) machine and they will have a few Oracle clients on Linux
> machines and connection will be set by perl library (DBI or something).
> does it have a sense?

You'll need a pair of new Perl modules; DBD & DBI.

> Is it possible?

MOST definitely!

> Oracle db will store only one extremely big table.
> There will be daily inserts and table will record all of them.
> Then they want to have fast access to any record in the table. Table will
> have on primary key.
> Is it good solution?
> Thanks
> 
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