Re: Silly question perhaps -- iAS vs. IIS

We use IIS very successfully connecting to our Oracle database. I can't really give you impact because I don't know what a OAS connection is like, but we generally get very good response from the Web Server, and always get a good response from the database. However, it is rare that we have more than 20 users connected at once, though the web or otherwise. The only thing we have had to be very careful about is being sure to close all connections on the same page that we open them because the connection doesn't die just because the session was closed.

At 04:37 AM 2/8/01 -0800, you wrote:
>I don't know if this is a silly question, but I am playing devil's advocate
>because one of the managers here made a comment re. this.
>
>Why would someone bother using the Oracle Web Server anyway?
>
>We have two boxes that use OWS 3.0.1.1 (we will upgrade very soon to OAS
>4.0, Oracle doesn't support 3.0.1.1 anymore), with JInitiator and Forms /
>Reports server.
>
>Another box is using the Oracle Application Web Toolkit to access my
>database, generating thousands of separate sessions per day, each about one
>second in length.
>
>I don't know about the other Web server options out there, is there a way to
>do the same thing with IIS and OLE DB, for example? What would the impact
>be on Web server performance, the network, and the back end database?
>
>Just wondering, please enlighten me.
>
>I asked the ODTUG listserv but there was resounding silence.
>
>TIA
>Patrice Boivin
>Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
>
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