A comparison of databases 1

[boobsie]

I'm doing a project on the differences between Oracle and Sql Server. I know about Oracle, but nothing about Sql Server.
I've read a lot of literature and visited a lot of sites but the information I seem to be getting is all biased.
Can anyone suggest anthing?

 

[fluteplr]

Oracle vs Sql Server seems to be taking on all the characteristics of a religous war. Lots of luck finding any unbiased opinions.

 

[wushutwist]

Try

http://www.searchdatabase.com,

it is a pretty good portal site for databases. Wushutwist

 

[boobsie]

Scalability

Buy more Windows NT or 2000 computers – for SQL Server and Horizontal Scalability architecture lets your system grow easily. Its powerful scalability means you can add additional middle tier servers incrementally to satisfy increased workloads. Plus, you can handle failover and load levels across multiple application servers - without significant impact to your operational environment. Your marketers will like it: as they add users and do more intensive queries - increasing workload requirements - you can add resources to your middle tier in minimal time and with minimal impact
Or buy fewer but larger and more expensive computers (Unix or MVS) – for Oracle. .
As the CRM application runs on a central server, its impact on your IT operation is minimal - no re-installing and upgrading software, workstation by workstation! This reduces the cost and hassle of components locally to each client. If there's an update, it's updated in one place. Everybody gets the latest deployment and version control. Users simply connect to the server, which executes and delivers all

The Microsoft Window 2000 operating system meets today’s business for ease of use, ease of administration, support for popular applications, and a common environment between client and server.
However, it has not reached the level of capability offered in clustered UNIX systems to connect multiple nodes together to drive a large database system. But what if you didn’t rely on the operating system to make your database scale?

Many businesses are considering using Microsoft Windows 2000 as the platform for their data warehouse. While there is strong provocation to move towards using Microsoft Windows 2000, there is also a high degree of scepticism about its ability to support a demanding system such as an enterprise data warehouse.
This is exacerbated by the knowledge that data warehouses will grow dramatically in volume of data and numbers of users.
Analysts predict that it still will be a few years until Windows NT is deployed as the operating system of many mission-critical enterprise system

DOES THIS MAKE SENSE?