RE: Microsoft VS Oracle (again)

Has anyone read the articles? One point states that failover for RAC requires coding changes to take advantage of it. Not from the demo I saw. HPaq (or whoever they are these days) took a circa '99 Oracle test GUI called Oracle Workload Generator and got failover to work with only changes to the sqlnet.ora. I've seen the demo twice, once with Unix servers and once with Windohs servers (since the app is Windohs, the client had to be Windohs), and while the Unix did the failover much faster (1-2 secs vs. 20-30 secs), both worked seamlessly. As an aside, the load balancing queries worked flawlessly, too.

So, what's the case for code changes?

Makes me want to read the articles further...

Rich

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator 
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FYI
One of my friends at Microsoft, (yes I must to confess, I have friends at MS) gave me a "present", it's a 4 cd's kit called "SQL Server 2000 for the Oracle Customer", the kit consist in 4 cd's with demos, docs, presentations, videos and a lot of stuff showing why sql server is a better option as a DB instead oracle, contains price lists, performance evaluation and many other "information", maybe you'd like to spend some of your time giving Billy a chance to defend his product. The 4 cd's are available
(almost completely) as links in:

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/oraclekit
Any comments?
Gabriel

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