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    How to tell the world that your companys product is swiss cheese

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    • mlnewsM
      mlnews
      last edited by

      This just feeds into the list of "why to consider something more modern and current." If Oracle DB seems like a good choice, check out PostgreSQL.

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      • Reid CooperR
        Reid Cooper
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        How many people are still using Oracle databases? I know that some big companies still have them left over from when they were still popular, but is anyone still deploying Oracle on any real scale?

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        • dafyreD
          dafyre
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          Sadly, there are several products in the education space that require Oracle Databases (Banner, anybody?)... A couple of the setups I have seen are just... crazy. (One system I know of has 6 different database servers clustered together (not sure if active/active or active / passive ) for high availability ^W^W redundancy (fixed that for you, Scott! 8-) ).

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @dafyre
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            @dafyre said:

            Sadly, there are several products in the education space that require Oracle Databases (Banner, anybody?)... A couple of the setups I have seen are just... crazy. (One system I know of has 6 different database servers clustered together (not sure if active/active or active / passive ) for high availability ^W^W redundancy (fixed that for you, Scott! 8-) ).

            Do they work with PostgreSQL? PostgreSQL has options for being a drop in replacement for Oracle.

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            • dafyreD
              dafyre
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              Sadly, no, as far as I know our Enterprise Apps team is pretty much married to Oracle for the Banner development stuff... They keep me siloed into Windows / Linux admin, so I don't really get to mess with the coding stuff to much.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @dafyre
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                @dafyre said:

                Sadly, no, as far as I know our Enterprise Apps team is pretty much married to Oracle for the Banner development stuff... They keep me siloed into Windows / Linux admin, so I don't really get to mess with the coding stuff to much.

                So it is the apps team demanding Oracle because they.... like wasting money... and not because it is a requirement of any kind? Lots of shops want Oracle, but lots get nice swag from buying it too 😉

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
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                  Here is the PostgreSQL based EnterpriseDB which is a drop in replacement for Oracle. App people should have no way to tell the difference.

                  http://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads

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                  • dafyreD
                    dafyre @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller Sadly, no... it is a State university system requiring us to use Banner which requires Oracle... State demands trump local decisions, sadly.

                    They do a bit with MySQL as well (I have yet to see a pgsql instance on campus yet)...

                    I check that link you sent... is the Enterprise Postgresql free? I've never messed around with pgsql... looks like I need to pick it up!

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @dafyre
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                      @dafyre said:

                      @scottalanmiller Sadly, no... it is a State university system requiring us to use Banner which requires Oracle... State demands trump local decisions, sadly.

                      That's the beauty of EnterpriseDB, it's a drop in for Oracle. It's a full Oracle API database running PostgreSQL underneath. So it satisfies the phrase "requires Oracle."

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @dafyre
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                        @dafyre said:

                        I check that link you sent... is the Enterprise Postgresql free? I've never messed around with pgsql... looks like I need to pick it up!

                        I believe that it is. It's definitely much cheaper than Oracle with support.

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