RE: Oracle to MSSQL conversion?

I haven't heard of an SQL Server instance before... do you mean a SQL Server server?

(this is getting a bit confusing)

Patrice.

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Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 1:19 PM
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> Maybe now is a good time for me to ask these question since it is
> related to this thread's subject, can you say that an Oracle
> instance is
> essentially the same as a MSSQL database? I ask this because a MSSQL
> server can support multiple databases which can be configured
> different
> ways.

But there are more things that the SQL Server database has controlled by its instance than things it can set itself (e.g. performance parameters, security settings, user sort space, processor affinity, connection handling etc. etc. are all instance settings). It's more accurate to say that an Oracle instance is closer to a SQL Server instance than a database, but is by no means exactly the same. Oracle just doesn't have the concept of multiple database support in one instance (and I mean database, not schema). That's not necessarily a bad thing, just means they are different to SQL Server (and DB2, Informix, Sybase and others which all have this). I'll stop there ... enough people on the list have heard my rant about this before :-)

Ciao
Fuzzy
:-)

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