Re: Oracle vs SQL server

2000-06-21 Thread Todd Ashworth
>Why would I spend money for Sybase when I already have SQL server >and could get Oracle for free?? You probably wouldn't .. but for those who are looking for something better than Access ... ;) >>>Hi everyone. >>> >>>We're using SQL server 7.0 and it's working great. The DoD recently >>>purch

Re: Oracle vs SQL server

2000-06-21 Thread Tom Nunamaker
Why would I spend money for Sybase when I already have SQL server and could get Oracle for free?? Tom At 6/21/00 09:04 AM, you wrote: >At 01:18 PM 6/21/2000 +0200, you wrote: > >Hi everyone. > > > >We're using SQL server 7.0 and it's working great. The DoD recently > >purchases a site license >

RE: Oracle vs SQL server

2000-06-21 Thread jstiefel
Free on Linux even. ;-) -Original Message- From: Judah McAuley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Oracle vs SQL server At 01:18 PM 6/21/2000 +0200, you wrote: >Hi everyone. > >We're using SQL server 7.0 an

Re: Oracle vs SQL server

2000-06-21 Thread Judah McAuley
At 01:18 PM 6/21/2000 +0200, you wrote: >Hi everyone. > >We're using SQL server 7.0 and it's working great. The DoD recently >purchases a site license >for the entire DoD for Oracle. My question is should I move my SQL server >DB to Oracle? Just to be contrary, I'd put my vote in for Sybase. G

RE: Oracle vs SQL server

2000-06-21 Thread Holger Lockertsen
We have a standard application that was made for SQL-server 7 and which we recently made available for Oracle as well. We ran into a few problems, but most were due to ODBC-driver-problems (The customer was running CF 4.5.1 Pro, so native drivers was out of the question) >From my mind: We had to

RE: Oracle vs SQL server

2000-06-21 Thread joeug
Tom, I have worked with both the databases and i think Sql server is "much more easier to set up and to work with". Sql server is much more flexible than oracle, Oracle might have some advantages for large databases, but i guess the latest Sql server version is equally powerful. Joe