Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:12:52 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1046621573.b13c3d@mired.org> To: Trent Nelson <trent@limekiln.vcisp.net> Cc: "Philip M. Gollucci" <philip@p6m7g8.com>, synrat <synrat@wirewalk.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Oracle on FreeBSD Message-ID: <15963.38404.257921.610622@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20030225091453.GB70361@limekiln.vcisp.net> References: <1046128729.490.8.camel@dethstar> <Pine.LNX.4.50.0302242257420.21216-100000@mail.wirewalk.com> <200302242321.04463.philip@p6m7g8.com> <20030225091453.GB70361@limekiln.vcisp.net>
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In <20030225091453.GB70361@limekiln.vcisp.net>, Trent Nelson <trent@limekiln.vcisp.net> typed: > I'm interested in seeing how well something like PostgreSQL can be > used as a ``drop-in'' replacement for Oracle. If I have clients > connecting via ODBC (Rational ClearQuest), I personally couldn't > care what the underlying database is. Now *that* is something I'd > be interested in seeing a write up for. It's not a drop-in replacement. You have to install the PostgreSQL ODBC drivers on all the clients. Any client-side scripts will have to be changed to use a PostgreSQL wrappers instead of Oracle wrappers. The SQL is probably subtly different as well. SQL may be a standard, but you still get locked into the databases that you can query with it. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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