Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!nigelc
From: nigelc@cognos.UUCP (Nigel Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: how bad is oracle?
Message-ID: <9292@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 91 05:18:49 GMT
References: <10737@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Feb3.182558.14411@oracle.com>
Reply-To: nigelc@cognos.UUCP (Nigel Campbell)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1991Feb3.182558.14411@oracle.com> jklein@oracle.UUCP (Jonathan Klein) writes:
>In article <10737@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> mao@eden.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Olson) writes:
>>a couple of days ago i posted a query about oracle to this newsgroup.
>>since i got no response, i thought i would repost with a more provocative
>>subject line.
>>
>>here's the question:  i have heard that oracle does not have a query
>>optimizer.  i find this surprising.  is it true?
>>

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>All versions of oracle that I have worked with have had an query optimizer.
>
>Jonathan Klein

Would you like to give a comparison on the merits of the Oracle approach
vs say Rdb/Vms,Interbase,Sybase etc especially based on a database where
the user has not taken to using physical row,table placement schemes . 




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