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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/2/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Phil Middlemiss</b> <<a href="mailto:phil@tumonz.co.nz">phil@tumonz.co.nz</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Does it bring anything *significant* to the table that Firebird doesn't?</blockquote>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Apart from a recognisable name (which some clients like) </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The indexed text searching of documents stored in blob fields that Oracle implements is brilliant. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">When I last looked, none of the other major databases could compare with this functionality that oracle offered.</span></p>
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