From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 28 15:21:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luna.lyris.net (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B98E14E53 for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 15:21:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kip@lyris.com) Received: from luna.shelby.com by luna.lyris.net (8.9.1b+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id PAA12580; Fri, 28 May 1999 15:14:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by luna.shelby.com with SMTP (MailShield v1.50); Fri, 28 May 1999 15:14:54 -0700 Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 15:14:54 -0700 (PDT) From: X-Sender: kip@luna To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: using Oracle Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SMTP-HELO: luna X-SMTP-MAIL-FROM: kip@lyris.com X-SMTP-RCPT-TO: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-SMTP-PEER-INFO: luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If I install it as linux doesn't that mean that my application linking against the client libraries has to be a Linux executable? I don't mind the server running as a linux executable, but I would like it if I could link against the client-side libraries as a FreeBSD executable. Is that possible? Thanks. -Kip On Fri, 28 May 1999, Jamie Lawrence wrote: > 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