Java & Oracle

[Dillinger4]

I want to start getting into database programming but not sure if i want to use SQLServer or Oracle as a back end. I noticed that most Java database programming uses Oracle. It also looks like Oracle owns 39.4% of the market vs. IBM DB2 33.6%, Microsoft SQL Server 11.1%. http://www.oracle.com/ip/index.html?database1.html What do you guys think?

[CornedBee]

Use a generic frontend so it doesn't matter. JDBC for example.

[Dillinger4]

Wow pretty cool. Straight from suns site.

"JDBC technology is an API that lets you access virtually any tabular data source from the Java programming language. It provides cross-DBMS connectivity to a wide range of SQL databases, and now, with the new JDBC API, it also provides access to other tabular data sources, such as spreadsheets or flat files."

Thanks :)