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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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 ente</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>rp</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>rise RAC cluster of
oracle databases to serve hundred thousands of users without having to change a
single line of code.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>… 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 ;-/</span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz
[mailto:delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Barry Neale<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Wednesday,
November 02, 2005</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>10:40
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> NZ Borland Developers Group - </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Delphi</span></font><font
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List<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [DUG] FYI Oracle make
free entry level 4Gb user databaseavailalable</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span class=gmailquote><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 11/2/05, <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Phil Middlemiss</span></b> <<a
href="mailto:phil@tumonz.co.nz">phil@tumonz.co.nz</a>> wrote:</span></font></span>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Does it bring anything
*significant* to the table that Firebird doesn't?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Apart from a recognisable name
(which some clients like) </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The indexed text searching of
documents stored in blob fields that Oracle implements is brilliant. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>When I last looked, none of the
other major databases could compare with this functionality that oracle
offered.</span></font></p>
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