Re: Oooer, namesake! - Was Oracle 10g on W2K

Hey Mikey! I hope you have luck completing that Oracle project. Maybe your clients should pick something more concise, more stable, smaller an not bloated, and definitely faster, like MySQL. Cheers. -- Running 'ojtibi' on '127.0.0.1' (BATCH_OPTIMISTIC mode). "Live free() or die()." "Mikey" <frak@upcore.net> wrote in message news:1960.195.82.118.158.1089798307.squirrel@195.82.118.158... > OCIPLogon is just another function provided by the DLL, my problem was > that the DLL didn't seem to be loading properly. However, I had > uncommented the wrong DLL (php_oracle, not php_oci8) - doh! > > Also, I found that having ORACLE_HOME defined caused problems once I had > the DLL up and running, so I removed that and everything is fine now. > > *EXCEPT* > > Jeez is Oracle s-l-o-w! The boot up time for the PC that Oracle lives on > has substantially increased, making the first connection to the database > takes ages and shutdown time is much longer too. > > I miss mySQL, I love mySQL, please don't let me have to work on another > Oracle project :-) > > Mikey > > P.S. Are you really another Mikey or just taking the p!ss? > > -- > Recruitment consultants are like morning dew - soggy and wet in the > morning and non-existent by the afternoon.