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Re: Oracle pricing ain't going down

From: Todd Boss <boss_at_i-sphere.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:14:24 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D43E0.20031024151424@fatcity.com>


Really? I'm curious, because after reading up on Index-Organized Tables, they sound actually pretty similar.

Clustered Index: an "ordering ruleset" for the data on the disk. IOT: a method to store oracle rows in a b*Tree format instead of the default rowid-controlled heap.

So, generically, both are ways you can control the physical order of the data on your disk. Is there more to it than this simplistic explanation?

Followup question: why not have EVERY table be an IOT in oracle?

(notwithstanding the known limitations of IOTs; no longs, no clustering)

Boss

>
> IOT and clustered indexes are not comparable to each other.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 2:44 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> My workplace is going in the same direction as David Mitchell's. Our
> OLTP systems are Oracle, basically everything else is being (or being
> considered) migrated to MSSQL2000.
>
> I am not that familiar with SQL Server, but I believe SQL2000 has
> sequences. I think MS calls it identity. I think MS also has IOT, which
> they call clustered indexes. MS might even have function based indexes
> with SQL2000, but not very sure. Anyone care to comment?
>
> Abey.
>
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> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 11:19 PM
>
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ryan [mailto:rgaffuri_at_cox.net]
> > > Sent: Friday, 24 October 2003 12:44
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > > Subject: Re: Oracle pricing ain't going down
> > >
> > >
> > > what is MSEE lacking in?
> >
> > <sound of can of worms opening>
> >
> > Here's a start. MSSQLServer EE has ...
> >
> > No bitmap indexes, no partitioned indexes, no function-based indexes,
> > no
> domain indexes, no reverse key indexes, no object tables, no before
> triggers (can be kludged, not pretty), no multiple actions per trigger
> event, no 3rd-party language support a la Oracle's JVM and pro*...
> modules, no built-in OLAP (it's a weird bolt-on), no control over extent
> size, no control over block size, no star query optimisation, no
> sequences, no synonyms, no packages, no structured exception handling in
> stored proc language (TSQL), no MINUS union operator, no multiplexing or
> mirroring of log files, no cyclical log management, no escalation-free
> locking, no index organised tables.
> >
> > (Working with both every day, do you get the feeling I've been asked
> > this
> before? :-))
> >
> > Half of those things are available in Oracle SE One :-)
> >
> > Ciao
> > Fuzzy
> > :-)
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