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You also get some other goodies .. like “analytical sql functions”, and materialized views (fantastic for those internet queries to show sums/counts/statistics/etc on each page) .. and the tools to manage database schemas are a bit more evolved than what you get for FireBird … and pl/sql offers some more commands than firebirds psql.
But personally, the biggest selling point of XE for me is “scalability” .. the warm fuzzy feeling that if one of my new website projects ever gets that popular I can just change to an enterprise RAC cluster of oracle databases to serve hundred thousands of users without having to change a single line of code.
… and I guess the thing that I worked with oracle technology in R&D for the last 10 years also somehow leads me towards embracing Oracle XE rather than Firebird, I guess ;-/
Kind Regards, Stefan Mueller
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On 11/2/05, Phil Middlemiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does it bring anything *significant* to the table that Firebird doesn't?
Apart from a recognisable name (which some clients like)
The indexed text searching of documents stored in blob fields that Oracle implements is brilliant.
When I last looked, none of the other major databases could compare with this functionality that oracle offered.
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