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Active vs Passive FTP   FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It is a standard protocol, which is used in file transferring from one host to another host over a TCP based network. FTP has client-server architecture, and it operates on OSI model of the application layer. There are four data representation... 

ORACLE Dataguard vs Real Application Cluster (RAC)   RAC and Data guard are very important topics in Oracle High Availability. Both of these architectures have many enhancements in Oracle 11gR2 than the 10g and 9i. ORACLE recommends having a combination of RAC and data guard to get the maximum benefit of data level... 

Fast Ethernet vs Gigabit Ethernet | Standards, Physical Media Specifications, Speed and Performance   What is Ethernet?  Ethernet in computer networks refers to a collection of standards and components, which provides a media to communicate in a Local Area Network (LAN), between network devices. There are various... 

CPU vs GPU   CPU, the acronym for Central Processing Unit, is the brain of a computing system that performs the “computations” given as instructions through a computer program. Therefore, having a CPU is meaningful only when you have a computing system that is “programmable” (so that it can execute... 

IPSec vs SSL   Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) are used to ensure secure data transmission between computers. The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol is used mainly in authenticating web transactions between web servers and web browsers. Main concern in developing SSL was... 

Stored Procedure vs Function   Stored procedures and functions are two types of programming blocks. Both of them must have calling names. Those calling names are used to call them inside another programming block like procedures functions and packages or SQL queries. Both of these object types accept parameters... 

View vs Table   Views and tables, both are two database object types. In simple words, Views are stored or named select queries. They can be created as shown below. Create or replace view view_name  As  Select_statement; Tables are made up of columns and rows. A column is a set of data, which belongs to a same... 

View vs Stored Procedure   Views and stored procedures are two types of database objects. Views are kind of stored queries, which gather data from one or more tables. Here, is the syntax to create a view create or replace view viewname as select_statement; A stored procedure is a pre compiled SQL command set, which... 

Synonym vs Alias (in ORACLE databases) | Private synonyms and Public synonyms   In English, synonym and alias have nearly the same meanings. But in databases those are two different things. Especially in ORACLE databases, both of their usage is different. Synonyms are used to refer objects of a schema or a database... 

Archival vs Backup | File archiving and Database archiving, Hot backups and Cold backups   Archiving and backing up are two main topics related to databases. Backups are used as a database disaster-recovery solution. Archives are used to store a specific version of a table data or a file, or separate/move a set... 

C vs C# | C Sharp vs C Languages   Since 1950, many programming languages have been incepted, while some are purely new and others are variants of existing to support numerous programming paradigms. Both C and C# are programming languages, which were introduced as variants of existing languages. It is known that... 

View vs Materialized View   Views and materialized views (mviews) are two types of oracle database objects. Both of these objects refer select queries. These select queries act as virtual tables. Normally views and mviews refer large select queries, which have set of joins. Therefore, one of the main advantages... 

Wallpaper vs Screensaver   Wallpaper and screensaver are words used commonly in computer parlance. Even while surfing the net, you get across sites that promise free wallpapers and screensavers. These are graphics used on the monitor of a PC, laptop, notebook, and even mobile of today, to give it a personalized... 

Login vs Log On   Do you login or do you log on to your computer and different websites? This is a question that is difficult to answer for even experts. In fact, there are many who thing that both are synonymous and either can be used to describe the act of getting inside a website or being allowed to use... 

IP vs DNS   There are two main namespace methods implemented in the Internet: IP address spaces and Domain naming hierarchy. The Domain names are maintained and translated to IP addresses by the DNS. What is IP? IP or the Internet Protocol serves two purposes: defining the rules for the IP addressing system... 

TCP vs IP   TCP and IP are the first and the most important two communication protocols in the Internet Protocol Suite (which include all the communications protocols, i.e., set of rules and message formats implement to transfer data between computer systems, used for Internet and other networks). Sometimes...