We use Sybase here, but I've noticed that the vast majority of discussions are about
CF and Oracle. I wonder if that means Oracle is the preferred database for CF or if it
is because it has more problems to discuss than the others? :-)
At 02:38 PM 10/5/00 +0100, Gavin Lilley wrote:
>I have heard that Oracle is the best database for Coldfusion because
>basically they can communicate natively without ODBC which will give much
>better performance. How true is this statement?
>
>I have a site which is being prototyped in Access (spit) but requires more
>power. I have been looking at the cheap route; mySql and Interbase compared
>with Oracle 8i, DB2 v7 and a few others.
>
>Is there anything I am overlooking? Does anyone have any comments/urls to
>help me make a more educated decision?
>
>Is Oracle a good database or is it like a Bentley; you just pay for the
>name? Designer databases :-)
>
>--
>Gavin Lilley
>Internet / Intranet Developer
>Halesowen College
>Tel: 0121 550 1451 Ext: 330
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Hannum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: 05 October 2000 14:30
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: Re: Oracle and Cold Fusion
>
>
>You are the first others I've heard of with that same To_Char problem. I
>thought it just might be a configuration issue on our end, (NT 4.0 SP5 &
>IBM) but it appears that we're not the only one now. Does anybody know if
>it's a CF issue or an Oracle issue, because when I talked to Allaire and
>Oracle, they both just pointed the finger at each other and neither was
>interested in addressing the problem.
>
>Dave
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Larry Juncker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 9:11 AM
>Subject: RE: Oracle and Cold Fusion
>
>
>We also are using Oracle 8i and CF4.5. The To_Char issue is still there but
>otherwise, everything seems to work flawlessly. -- KNOCK ON MY WOODEN
>DESK --
>
>Larry Juncker
>Senior Cold Fusion Programmer
>Heartland Communications Group, Inc.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Hannum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 8:03 PM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: Re: Oracle and Cold Fusion
>
>
>We use Oracle 8 & 8i here with a tremendous amount of success. We've had
>one issue - that is that our Oracle sits on an IBM box and as a result, I
>have problems with number fields. I can write fine, but when I read back
>out using the Native Drivers, number fields come back in EPIDIC, so I have
>to do a To_Char on them. Otherwise, I can use ODBC without any problems.
>Now, that's been with 4.01. We're just about ready to load up 4.51, so
>we'll see what happens then.
>
>Oracle on IBM
>CF 4.01 on NT4.0 SP 5
>Native Drivers
>ODBC
>
>Hope this helps,
>Dave
>
>
>
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