Re: oracle : The lowdown

[Jeff Warner]

Title: Re: oracle : The lowdown

	We were a mySQL shop.  We replaced mySQL with Oracle8i/mod_perl and
and Apache::DBI.  Works great, once it is all setup.  Our overall
processing is faster with Oracle too.  The lack of transactions and
views put an immediate end of mySQL once we got into the details of my
project.  

	Oracle is overkill for smaller task but you don't have to worry about
outgrowing it.

Jeff 

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On 1/11/00, 1:54:14 PM, John Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
regarding oracle : The lowdown:


> Hello all-
>       I just got the word from down high that VC's will freak out
> if they see we are using mysql and now we are looking at an Oracle
> solution.

>       The product is a mid level mod perl application that will
> receive ~500,000 hits a day. I want to engineer it to withstand up to
> 2 million hits per day ( not unique users ).  Does anyone have good
> or bad stories about using Oracle with mod_perl/DBI/Apache::DBI? I
> would love to hear both sides of the coin. I personally think Oracle
> is overkill but I don't have any major issues with it.

> I am also searching the archives for problem reports but I was hoping
> for some anecdotal evidence about the positive or negative of this
> move.

> Thanks!
> John Armstrong


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