Re: Oracle Performance

Of course you are right. But if there is no compelling business reason why you need to change their minds, then move on to something more productive.

Van

Joseph Finley <jfinley_at_webwyse.com> wrote in message news:7NIN4.25007$zL2.407564_at_typhoon.neo.rr.com...
> bmlm,
>
> They are dealing with a few million records, multiple databases, and when
> they are running reports it's just slow. They do joins also. It's just
> hard convincing a couple people who have never programmed with anything
 else
> that there are other languages/rdbms'. Thanks for your response.
>
> Joe
>
>
>
>
> "bmlam" <bmlam_at_online.de> wrote in message
> news:39075491.BE183E09_at_online.de...
> > Joseph, do they have some tables in size of a couple of million records
 or
> > regions of gigs? If not, ask them to try that and run some joins and
 DML's
 to
> > compare? If they dont need to deal with that kind of data amount, then
 there is
> > no much need for Oracle neither, except for the backup concepts.
> >
> >
> > Joseph Finley schrieb:
> >
> > > I know a couple programmers using TopSpeed's Clarion and their
 database
> > > which is included TPS. I argue daily about the speed of Oracle vs.
 this
> > > desktop database. They are in the world of Clarion is the only thing
 out
> > > there. Can someone explain to me in detail how Oracle get's it's
 speed.
 I
> > > have shown examples and ran queries based on theirs and it still
 doesn't
> > > convice them. They just dont seem to realize the difference between a
> > > dektop database and a Database Server.
> > >
> > > Joe
> >
>
>
Received on Wed Apr 26 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT