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From: mh@wlbr.EATON.COM (Mike Hoegeman)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Oracle (sorta long)
Message-ID: <23215@wlbr.EATON.COM>
Date: 13 Sep 88 23:35:52 GMT
References: <6658@ems.Ems.MN.ORG> <23173@wlbr.EATON.COM> <6271@venera.isi.edu>
Reply-To: mh@wlbr.eaton.com.UUCP (Mike Hoegeman)
Organization: Eaton IMSD, Westlake Village, CA
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In article <6271@venera.isi.edu> lmiller@venera.isi.edu.UUCP (Larry Miller) writes:
>>>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?
>>
>>The vaxVMS version 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.




The suns we use are sun 3/160's w/ SCSI disks

The vms vaxes we use are 8350's w/ RA81 disks

The version of oracle we run on the sun is v5.1.17.3

The version of oracle on the vax is 5.1.2.2

By the way , on the suns we actually run the oracle kernel and system
tables on one sun and have the rest of the database tables on another
which oracle gets at via nfs.  Grody to be sure, but we don't really
have a choice cause none of suns has anything more than a 140Mb drive
on it.

-mike