which database is better oracle or microsoft?
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Companies use Oracle more than Microsoft, although it'd be good to get some experience with SQL.  I've used both, and never seen any real huge difference between the two.  The coomands are generally the same, the logic is generally the same.
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This is what I found on the Oracle website. .
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So, in order of which system processes the most amount of data today, it would be:\n\n1. DB2\n2. Oracle\n3. MS SQL Server\n4. MySQL (not really commerical though)\n5. MS Access\n6. Sybase/Illustra\n7. FoxPro\n8. All others...\n\nIf this is the best answers, please vote it the best answer. Thanks!
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SAP is not as popular as Oracle and MS-SQL, but it does have a good-sized customer base, especially in the financial industry.\n\nI've never used it but I have seen people advertising for SAP help.
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From Oracle itself....
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Oracle is very big and is designed for enterprise-level security, speed, and scalability.\n\nMS Access is *supposed* to be for a personal desktop database meant for storing information pertinent to your own needs.  It isn't meant to be used by multiple users over a network (even though you can make it do that).  I've heard of websites that use Access to drive content - but that would only be practical for very small sites.\n\nIf you're trying to decide between the two, consider the final destination/usage and go from there.
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Place in the first CD and start the Oracle Installer. What you'll need to install on your computer is not only the Oracle database but also the Oracle server (which from wht I've heard can be configured and installed only on the same partition windows is installed...). Then you'll be prompted for what kind of database do you want to configure on your system (depends..). After this Oracle will copy all the files needed... You'l have a hard time configuring users password, group id's in Oracle 9i...
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if your using .net platform than look up the oracle client\n\nSystem.Data.OracleClient.OracleConnection\nIf your using any other windows implemetation of C, C++ use odbc
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bigbubba is right. SQL is far more stable when multi-user access is needed.\n\nif you cannot afford a SQL server, you can use MSDE from Microsoft which is free.
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If what you are asking is what you can use to store and manage data (don't know about the 'buy' part) I can take a stab at it. \n\nI am a software engineer that has been writing database applications for 13 years. What I have used are:\nMicrosoft Access (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access/default.aspx)\nMySQL (an Open Source, free database) (http://www.mysql.com/)\nMicrosoft SQL Server (http://www.microsoft.com/sql/default.mspx) and \nOracle (http://www.oracle.com/index.html).  \n\nThese are pretty much the viable solutions depending on the application. MS Access is more of a poor-mans solution but certainly capable of handling 100's of thousands of rows of data, MySQL is a bit more complex but has evolved and even has a User Interface to manage the database now and fairly capable in terms of it's data capacity. SQL Server/Oracle are the full-blown Database Management Systems (DBMS) that cost the big bucks to license but are what large enterprises/web sites use to hold all their data.\n\nHope this helps.
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Dont try to cheat Microsoft. Vista is worth the Money.
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The best for enterprise is Oracle 10g, ighly reliable, fast,scaleable. MySQl for open source, nice easy and free of charge.
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Use either Access or MySQL. 1000 records is very small, you do not need to pay the $thousands for MS SQL or Oracle. Access can definitely handle 1000 records.\n\nOne nice thing about Access is that it enables you to create forms. So people can input data using a visual form, and the data goes into the database. Also, Access offers a GUI for creating your database tables. MySQL does not offer these capabilities, but its main plus is that it is free. I would question what the other guy said about how powerful it is, though. It is definitely a lot weaker than Oracle or MS SQL, BUT for your needs it should be fine.\n\nEither Access or MySQL will work fine for Web programming too if you want to connect your db to an online Web site.
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I have never had a good experience working with or converting data to/from Oracle. Unless you have a very good reason to do this I would advise against it. I don't have anything against them as a company or anything (not like people who hate everything Microsoft) but I have been working with DBs for about 9 years now, from mySQL, Access, Oracle, AS400, MSSQL, Filemaker, etc and have always had the worse time setting up and installing Oracle. Very hard to migrate data to it. If you are migrating data out to MS SQL they have some nice tools for that.\n\nYou can also plan on having to have somebody very skilled in this to perform backups and maintenance routines.\n\nI have converted several Oracle apps to other DBs just because we didn't have the personel or money to dedicate a large chunk of someones time to support it and couldn't find any advantages to use it. The only app that we kept on Oracle was one we designed for GM because they had a sitewide license and couldn't validate using a different DB, although it lengthened our dev time.\n\nI wish you look with the conversion and hope it goes smoother then my experiences.
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Business database software. Similar to Oracle. Originally from Germany.
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check this dude...\n\nhttp://download.oracle.com/oowsf2005/666.pdf
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Please visit the oracle technet web site:\n\nhttp://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html