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From: anderson@well.sf.ca.us (David E. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Oracle vs Ingres
Summary: comments about process architecture mislead
Keywords: processes databases
Message-ID: <21975@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 5 Dec 90 08:03:21 GMT
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In article <1990Dec2.080257.21343@odi.com> dlw@odi.com writes:
>In article <5550@avocado20.UUCP> palat@motcid.UUCP (Mohan Palat) writes:
>
>	   Oracle uses an unusual process architecture (in UNIX). Several 
>	   processes have to be started up before one can even access a 
>	   database. Ingres does not require any such initialization. 
>
>Is this really a practical drawback to Oracle?  That is, can't the
>startup of these processes be arranged to be completely transparent
>and automatic?
Of course the processes can be started automatically.  That is standard 
practice for Unix software and standard for Oracle and Ingres and Sybase and ...
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