RE: [OT] Re: What Oracle is best?

2003-06-10 Thread Schwartz, David (CHR)
check out pointbase (written in java) at www.pointbase.com there's a free dev version. -Original Message- From: Jason Bainbridge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 3:46 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: [OT] Re: What Oracle is best? Oracle is an enterprise

[OT] Re: What Oracle is best?

2003-06-09 Thread Jason Bainbridge
Oracle is an enterprise level commercial Database Management System ie. $$$ where MySQL is an Open Source alternative designed mainly for web application uses (although this may change with their partnership with SAP). These DBMS's can be used within servlets and JSP's by using the appropriate

RE: What Oracle is best?

2003-06-09 Thread Schwartz, David (CHR)
if you have only one machine to run it on then get oracle 9i lite. Its great for dev & testing locally. I'm using it with oracle jdbc drivers, tomcat 4.1.24 -Original Message- From: Jonathan Michael Nowacki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 3:36 PM To: Tomcat Users List

Re: What Oracle is best?

2003-06-09 Thread Michael Duffy
I believe you'd just need the JDBC driver jars. I'm connecting to Oracle from a servlet, and that's all I'm using. Installing the Oracle client SQL-Plus might be helpful for working directly with the database tables, but it's not necessary if someone else has already done that for you. You