Re: Oracle VS SQL Server - Which is best to back end ?

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  • Chris Hohmann

    Re: Oracle VS SQL Server - Which is best to back end ?

    "Mujahid" <mujahid@iqura. netwrote in message
    news:OuhAYozFAH A.271@cppssbbsa 04...
    A lot of people I know who have worked on both Oracle and SQL Server tell
    me
    that PL SQL is much more powerful that T SQL.
    Oracle clusters better than SQL S. but can anyone point out an equalent of
    DTS and OLAP in Oracle ?
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  • Hans Forbrich

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    Re: Oracle VS SQL Server - Which is best to back end ?

    Chris Hohmann wrote:
    "Mujahid" <mujahid@iqura. netwrote in message
    news:OuhAYozFAH A.271@cppssbbsa 04...
    >A lot of people I know who have worked on both Oracle and SQL Server tell
    me
    >that PL SQL is much more powerful that T SQL.
    A very common mistake in RDBMS programming include using ANY procedural
    language where pure SQL will accomplish the task. I have seen many
    instances of T-SQL and PL/SQL that were totally unnecessary - and both will
    be considerably slower than pure SQL if the ask can be accomplished in pure
    SQL.

    Due to >internal< differences in implementation of the SQL language, it is
    not generally a good idea to do a one-on-one comparison of T-SQL and
    PL/SQL.
    >Oracle clusters better than SQL S. but can anyone point out an equalent
    >of DTS and OLAP in Oracle ?
    >
    Oracle Database Utilities (Data Pump/SQL Loader)
    http://otn.oracle.com/products/datab...ies/index.html
    Realize that Oracle natively includes ablity to define tables based on
    external files (such as CLF exports from Excel) and 'heterogeneous
    services' allowing data to be sourced and included in transactions even
    when not stored in Oracle.
    Note that the OLAP option in Oracle is frequently overkill. In my
    experience, many reports and analyses only require things like Racle's
    Advanced Grouping capability - from their docco

    "... CUBE and ROLLUP to produce sub-totals and crosstab reports easily and
    efficiently using a single SQL statement." and "Analytic functions ...
    Includes rank, moving average, and ratio-to-report."

    Based on discussion in comp.database.o racle.server, and referencing Oracle's
    "New Features" doc for Oracle9i, these are available in Personal, Standard
    One, Standard and Enterprise Edition

    A decent reference to learn these is O'Reilly's "Mastering Oracle SQL"

    /Hans

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