Re: Informix vs Oracle BLOB management

Posted in 1997

David Williams — Mon, 5 May 1997 00:34:26 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <5khlec$rdl@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, Billy Wheeler <billy@west.co.za> writes > >Dear all, > >Anybody ever used both Informix and Oracle for BLOB management? If >so, any particular pro's and con's either way? > Yes in June 95 I used Oline 7.10 on HP-UX 10.x. Blob were WORD documents and retrieval using Visionware's SQL-Retreiver ODBC driver was bindly fast - made by company rethink the idea that Informix was a low end dbspace. The department manger who has been a serious techie for >10 years was totally blown away. 2nd time in 4 years I saw hm in that state!! Informix BLOB retrieval is very fast.. >-- >Ciao, >Billy > >Nose to the ground and ear to the grindstone in: Dubai > >[ Sorry, no humourous .sig is available - please try again later. ] -- David Williams