Quoting Orlando Andico ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > one big advantage of storing the data in Oracle is the InterMedia support > -- you can perform full-text queries on MSWord docs, PDF's, HTML, etc. > that are stored as BLOB's inside Oracle. > > of course InterMedia is an extra-cost option for Oracle, which already > costs a lot (InterMedia Text will roughly double the licensing cost!)
I remember, with a sense of convulsive horror, encountering Oracle InterMedia at a proprietary software company I used to work for (that was a Linux hardware company when I joined it ** cough, cough **). Parsing proprietary binary document formats and then full-text indexing them strikes me as about the most notable example of brute-force engineering I'm aware of. But, hey, if you're already willing to store crucial business data in unstable, badly documented, binary data formats, it's just one additional, expensive bad decision. -- Cheers, (Regarding "In God we trust":) "Don't ask me how you set the Rick Moen trust-level of a god." "At a PGP signing party?" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Per Leijonhufvud & Peter de Silva, in ASR _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
