[DUG] FYI Oracle make free entry level 4Gb user databaseavailalable

[Stefan Mueller]

You also get some other goodies .. like "analytical sql functions", and
materialized views (fantastic for those internet queries to show
sums/counts/statistics/etc on each page) .. and the tools to manage database
schemas are a bit more evolved than what you get for FireBird . and pl/sql
offers some more commands than firebirds psql.

 

But personally, the biggest selling point of XE for me is "scalability" ..
the warm fuzzy feeling that if one of my new website projects ever gets that
popular I can just change to an enterprise RAC cluster of oracle databases
to serve hundred thousands of users without having to change a single line
of code.

 

. and I guess the thing that I worked with oracle technology in R&D for the
last 10 years also somehow leads me towards embracing Oracle XE rather than
Firebird, I guess ;-/

 

Kind Regards,

Stefan Mueller

 

 

 

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From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
Behalf Of Barry Neale
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 10:40 AM
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] FYI Oracle make free entry level 4Gb user
databaseavailalable

 


 

On 11/2/05, Phil Middlemiss <phil at tumonz.co.nz> wrote: 

Does it bring anything *significant* to the table that Firebird doesn't?

 

Apart from a recognisable name (which some clients like) 

 

The indexed text searching of documents stored in blob fields that Oracle
implements is brilliant. 

 

When I last looked, none of the other major databases could compare with
this functionality that oracle offered.

 

 

 

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