Rod, Yeah, sorry about that, I'm guess I'm still venting over that one, but you wouldn't believe the amount of hassle the issues we've had with the Oracle driver have caused, and Oracle basically refused to help us even though it was clearly their driver at fault. :-( Note the original subject line says "is best". Even though Oracle's drivers do work for some, they only thing thats "best" about them as far as I can see is the price! We certainly had less problems with the third party drivers... In summary: avoid Oracle drivers for using Blobs if possible, other than that they are probably OK. Cheers Geoff -----Original Message----- From: Rod McChesney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, 8 December 1999 9:09 Subject: Re: AW: 'Thin driver is best for Applet while OCI is best forServlet' - NOT! >FWIW, we've been using Oracle's thin drivers for 8.0.4 for over a year >with no problems at all. This is on Solaris, not that it should matter. > >I think a blanket statement that the drivers suck is a bit over the top; >maybe for a particular application or style of usage it's true, but not >in >general. > >Rod McChesney, Korobra > > >Heinz Wehner wrote: >> >> Geoff, >> >> since we are currently in the process of deciding which JDBC driver should >> be used for accessing an Oracle8i database, I'd like to ask you for some >> more details regarding the non-conformance of Oracle's drivers. Can you >> please elaborate? We'd like to check if these problems are really that >> serious for us as they must have been for you. >> >> Regards, >> >> Heinz Wehner >> (Karlsruhe, Germany) >> >> > -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- >> > >> > Actually, both of Oracle's drivers _suck_. I'd suggest using a quality >> > payware third party driver like Merant or Weblogic if you want a stable >> > driver! >> > >> > We've had to do all sorts of evil workarounds to get the Oracle driver to >> > work. And then when you try and report bugs you have to contend with >> Oracle >> > claiming their driver is JDBC compliant when even Sun agree it's not... >> > They bring new meaning to the word "support".. :-) >> > >> > Cheers >> > >> > Geoff >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body >> of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". >> >> Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html >> Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html >> LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body >of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > >Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html >Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html >LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
