Oracle Database 10g *FREE* !

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:01 pm

Oracle has made a slim version of their DB system free for use.
Seems only to be limited to 4Gb of database!

http://www.oracle.com/technology/produc ... index.html

josku_x · Post by **josku_x** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:47 pm

Is oracle easy to use with PB? Looked in CodeArchiv and in these forums about Oracle, nothing surprising yet,.

Straker · Post by **Straker** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:02 pm

Should be no problem with ODBC. Oracle uses its own OCI.DLL for a native interface (I haven't seen a PB wrapper yet).

Oracle is a very powerful but complex database with its own SQL dialect, so unless you are writing a major multi-user database, there are easier solutions.

josku_x · Post by **josku_x** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:23 pm

Still surprising that oracle 10g express edition beta is so huge, not even the final MySQL is that large. Must be good anyway,

Straker · Post by **Straker** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:51 pm

Oh yes, Oracle is a pig.

rsts · Post by **rsts** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:30 am

Company I worked for uses Oracle for processing multiple terabyte data bases containing billions of transactions (call detail records).

For that type of volume and size it was about the only game in town.

For databases most of us mortals will be building/accessing, it's probably unnecessary complexity.

cheers

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:18 pm

rsts wrote:For that type of volume and size it was about the only game in town.

I agree - when MS SQL fails or for databases that are 500 GB or more, we switch to Oracle (on Unix).

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Oracle Database 10g FREE !

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