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Phil Factor (8/2/2010)
Relational databases aren't supposed to be "simple" minded;
The overwhelming cost of a database application usually turns out to be the cost of training, the cost of...
August 17, 2010 at 5:01 pm
EdVassie (8/2/2010)
August 2, 2010 at 7:09 am
Quite wrong. That's the way your grandfather wrote his COBOL programs against VSAM files. What you propose is to turn RDBMS (SQL Server in this venue) into dumb...
August 1, 2010 at 1:03 pm
I find I agree with the entirety of this post, especially the "failure" of Oslo. I had much hope that M$ would be the wedge factor to get us...
July 31, 2010 at 6:37 pm
RalphWilson (5/24/2010)
RobertYoung (5/24/2010)Since ASCII (BCD/EBCDIC is another kettle of fish) is cased, they would have to write routines to un-case the encoding wherever. It's so much easier to let...
May 24, 2010 at 8:28 am
Personally, I think case sensitivity is a sop to the computer, not the human.
Well, specifically systems programmers and compiler writers. Since ASCII (BCD/EBCDIC is another kettle of fish)...
May 24, 2010 at 7:28 am
Phil Factor (5/21/2010)
"There really is little justification for not having a case-sensitive collation for database on a dev server"
Hugo, I heartily agree with the sentiment, but I hate to actually...
May 21, 2010 at 9:24 am
Having spent most of the last decade mostly in DB2 (both mainframe and server), and lessly in SQL Server, I've come to take schemas for granted and get confused when...
May 8, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Umm. This thread is about Oracle and MySql. Whether such a thread should be on SQLServer dedicated site is not my call.
August 21, 2009 at 3:54 pm
RBarryYoung (8/21/2009)
gnuoytr (8/20/2009)
If you need Oracle horsepower, SQLServer won't do.
This rash and unsubstantiaed (and always disproven) claim has been made so many times over the decades...
August 21, 2009 at 1:29 pm
A side note I think Postgres had a DARPA grant.
And the US Government have approved the sale so MySQL users mostly ISP that charges a few dollars a month for...
August 21, 2009 at 10:02 am
davtt (8/20/2009)
so as long as MS keeps improving SQL Server they will not have anything to fear from Oracle.DaveT
No version of windoze will scale as well as *nix....
August 20, 2009 at 8:48 am
Actually, they bought RDB to get the Clustering management and RDB's MVCC stuff. RDB was already on the chopping block and VMS already in sharp decline and no longer...
August 20, 2009 at 8:38 am
Per the link below both INNODB and the new Sun developed Falcon are MVCC. If Oracle wants to beat IBM then Oracle needs to find out why IBM is...
August 18, 2009 at 1:22 pm
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