Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!samsung!rex!ukma!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: how bad is oracle? Message-ID: <1991Feb10.162535.4617@NCoast.ORG> Date: 10 Feb 91 16:25:35 GMT References: <10737@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Feb3.182558.14411@oracle.com> <1991Feb6.181906.17145@cimage.com> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) Followup-To: comp.databases Organization: North Coast Public Access Un*x (ncoast) Lines: 16 As quoted from <1991Feb6.181906.17145@cimage.com> by dbc@cimage.com (David Caswell): +--------------- | How bad is Oracle -- Not nearly as bad as Unify. +--------------- Which Unify? Unify 2000 doesn't seem to have any problems with queries being phrased in the "wrong" order or etc., and (once we figured out where we needed indexes on some large tables) runs quite fast. Certainly faster than the old Unify 4.0/5.0. ++Brandon -- Me: Brandon S. Allbery VHF/UHF: KB8JRR on 220, 2m, 440 Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG Packet: KB8JRR @ WA8BXN America OnLine: KB8JRR AMPR: KB8JRR.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery Delphi: ALLBERY