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From: pavlov@canisius.UUCP (Greg Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Why is Oracle better than Ingres
Message-ID: <3051@canisius.UUCP>
Date: 2 Dec 90 03:33:52 GMT
References: <734@keele.keele.ac.uk> <142@genco.bungi.com>
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo N.Y. 14208
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In article <142@genco.bungi.com>, rad@genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel) writes:
> In article <734@keele.keele.ac.uk> csb19@seq1.kl.ac.uk (K. Allen) writes:
> >Could someone outline the major differences between Oracle and Ingres.
> >Please state if you are using the commercial or university versions
> >of Ingres.
> >
> 
> I work with Oracle, not Ingres but know someone using Ingres.  Oracle 
> recovers very well from crashes where I hear Ingres can completely
> crash the database if the system crashes.
> 
  The only sources from which I "heard" the above is Oracle marketing reps
  and Oracle ads (tho those were aimed at everyone else's UNIX DBMSs in 
  general).

  We have used INGRES for apx. 6 years and have experienced our share of 
  system crashes.  Whatever faults INGRES may have, database corruption 
  due to system crashes has never been one of them.
  .

   greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny
   pavlov@stewart.fstrf.org


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