From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 28 14:26:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stage1.thirdage.com (stage1.thirdage.com [4.18.197.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAA4C14DB7 for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 14:26:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jal@thirdage.com) Received: from budd ([4.18.197.220]) by stage1.thirdage.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id OAA26642; Fri, 28 May 1999 14:25:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19990528142157.00cf8980@mail.thirdage.com> X-Sender: jal@mail.thirdage.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 14:30:40 -0700 To: From: Jamie Lawrence Subject: Re: using Oracle Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19990528141243.00d90b10@mail.thirdage.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 02:06 PM 5/28/99 -0700, kip@lyris.com wrote: >How fast is that compared with using Oracle's native library API? I assume >it isn't possible to port their access library to FreeBSD? How well would >their Linux access library work on FreeBSD? > -Kip I haven't done any speed comparisons, personally. It seems fine to me, for things like data loads and random queries and whatnot. You have to be careful about setting up and tearing connections and such in a loop - that'll slow you down immensely, and sometimes seems like the natural thing to do. Another option, of course, it to run Oracle under FreeBSD (instructions for doing so have been posted a bunch of times) and run sqlplus or whatever you like. -j To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message