[ic] Multipal DB servers

Mike Heins interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Fri Aug 2 13:01:18 2002


Quoting Richard Houston (rhouston@rlhc.net):
> Hi all,
> 
> I know this may be a silly question and the answer maybe rather obvious 
> but I figure it is better to ask than have egg on my face latter.
> 
> Is there any issue with having cat1 use Mysql on host1 and cat2 using 
> pgsql on another hosts and cat3 using oracle on third host? All cat 
> would exist on the same interchange server.
> 
> I looked at the dbconf stuff and it look like it is very possible and 
> easy to setup. But I would rather ask the way more experienced users on 
> this.

Interchange has no problems at all with it. Not only that, you could use
all three DB types (or more) in the same catalog if you wanted to.

The only side-effect will be to swell your code size, as having all
of those DB libraries included adds quite a bit.

-- 
Mike Heins
Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting    http://www.perusion.com/
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