Re: What comes first?? (Creating the Database or the Tablespace)

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 14:57:47 +0100
Message-ID: <7765c89704052706574051dafc@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all, my names Niall and I do know sqlserver... sorry wrong meeting...

anyway a sqlserver database is (especially on windows) <i>almost</i> exactly equivalent to a tablespace,being as how it is a logical collection of files that are managed by an instance and in which you can store objects.

Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com

On Thu, 27 May 2004 08:33:51 -0500, Bob Lofstrand <blofstrand_at_csedge.com> wrote:
>
> Software,
> It sounds like a fundamental terminology problem. I don't think database, as
> oracle uses the term, means what you think it means. I don't know sql
> server but if it is anything like informix then when it says database you
> need to think instance or whole system.

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