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From: lmiller@venera.isi.edu (Larry Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Oracle (sorta long)
Message-ID: <6271@venera.isi.edu>
Date: 12 Sep 88 16:46:15 GMT
References: <6658@ems.Ems.MN.ORG> <23173@wlbr.EATON.COM>
Reply-To: lmiller@venera.isi.edu.UUCP (Larry Miller)
Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California
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In article <23173@wlbr.EATON.COM> mh@wlbr.eaton.com.UUCP (Mike Hoegeman) writes:
>In article <6658@ems.Ems.MN.ORG> mpp@ems.Ems.MN.ORG (Michael Palmquist) writes:
>>I've used a few different databases to develop applications --
>>in (ACK!) MS-DOS with Q&A & Paradox and in Unix with UNIFY.
>>
>>I'm wondering has anyone used any of these and used Oracle.
>>How does Oracle compare?  What are its best features?  Does
>>anything about it suck -- ah, I mean, are there any drawbacks?
>
>Vax vms version:
>
>The vaxVMS version goes it works but it's considerably slower than the
>sun UNIX version.

	I'd be interested in more specifics: which release of Oracle,
	which Sun, which VAX, etc.

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