I think itt's because Oracle has a large market share for enterprise-level
e-commerce databases...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Theobald [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 10:23 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: Oracle and Cold Fusion
>
> 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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