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Oracle Database 10g *FREE* !
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:01 pm
by Num3
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
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:47 pm
by josku_x
Is oracle easy to use with PB? Looked in CodeArchiv and in these forums about Oracle, nothing surprising yet,.
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:02 pm
by Straker
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.
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:23 pm
by josku_x
Still surprising that oracle 10g express edition beta is so huge, not even the final MySQL is that large. Must be good anyway,
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:51 pm
by Straker
Oh yes, Oracle is a pig.
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:30 am
by rsts
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
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:18 pm
by techjunkie
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).