We have used the predecessor to the OTL for many of our apps and were planning to use the OTL for the new system. I thought the OTL used ODBC to make its connection with databases other than Oracle. I know the OTL supports Oracle natively.
Sadly we cannot move to Linux. We managed to get our web servers on Linux, but the big iron will always be Sun here (Company policy). There has been talk of getting Oracle 9i? because Oracle has told us it is much faster, but we are not holding our breath. Thanks, Brad Teale -----Original Message----- From: walt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 12:27 PM To: Brad Teale Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Real-time data warehousing How are your apps written? We use OTL libaries from http://members.fortunecity.com/skuchin/home.htm which are compiled into our C/C++ code. Moving our apps from oracle to mysql only requires changing 3 or 4 lines per call to the db in the code. Its not odbc "compliant", but still allows our apps to be "farily" portable and fast. We debated rewriting our apps to be ODBC compiant, but figured that was one more layer for bugs and we'd have to switch db platforms 4 times for it to be cost effective. Have you tried Oracle on Linux? We did some testing before Oracle told us the cost of migrating our licence from Oracle8/Solaris to Oracle8i/Linux. We benchmarked our current db server, Sun Ultra single processor 768MB ram, against a 600Mhz 500MB ram Intel/Linux box. The Linux./8i/Intel box smoked our current db server. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
