> 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.
(Um, are these VC's in a position to make an informed decision about
which RDBMS to use? What happens when they say "use foo" when foo
sucks?)
> 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.
Oracle takes longer to connect than Mysql so you should cache DB
connections.
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Mark Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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