Re: installing Oracle on Debian AMD64
Hi,
Adam Stiles wrote:
The proper way to fix it would be to recompile the whole package from source
so it works with your existing installation. But that probably is not an
option for you ;)
So let's ask a different question instead.
What do you need Oracle for that you can't do using PostgreSQL or MySQL?
When it comes to larger systems, eg not a webserver hosting phpbb2 stuff
or a small online store, databases that are to be accessible by
different kinds of client, and that processes data (eg does more than
select / update / delete and count() stuff -- i'm speaking of actual
code), that can do series of processing on events (when inserting /
updating tables for instance) ... eg without expecting the client to do
that... eg REALLY caring about data consistence... You need something
with more punch that MySQL ;) Mind you too, MySQL is not SQL standard -
or IS standard, but is matching old standards then. Well, MySQL is great
for simple stuff - web apps that can run on their own, and that requires
limited database functionality. Bigger is something else...
Well, I'm not the one who is gonna use oracle in the discussion so i'm
perhaps out of context. Perhaps he merely wants it for educational
purposes :)
Trust me, Oracle can do some stuff in a single shot that would require
to write a script in whatever language (perl, php...) to do the same
thing using a mysql database.
--
Jean-Christophe Montigny
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Responsable serveurs assoces.com, Association Planètes
Etudiant de deuxième année à Grenoble Ecole de Management
Majeure Conseil en Organisation des Systèmes d'Information
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