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  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    GSquared (2/10/2009)

    If I were interviewing and found that the prospective employer expected me to use a command-line interface to the server as my only tool, I'd tell them the interview...

  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    I'm using 50:50 PL/SQL Developer and SQL*Plus. Actually I think these funky shmunky GUI tools on the one hand are good if they enhance one's productivity, but bad because usually...

  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    Bruce W Cassidy (2/10/2009)


    [font="Verdana"]... especially if you factor in the cost of TOAD, which most Oracle shops seem to purchase. shudder[/font]

    Hmm never could understand the problem with these tools...

  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    Bruce W Cassidy (2/8/2009)


    Gift Peddie (2/8/2009)


    I am not saying Oracle is better than SQL Server but I know it comes with row level security.

    [font="Verdana"]Yeah. One of the features I...

  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    Gift Peddie (2/5/2009)


    8i was released almost 2000 and 9i was released in 2001 while 10g was 2004/5.

    Umm where you got these years?

    According to both official history article and...

  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    Gift Peddie (2/5/2009)


    All RDBMS varies in degree of the ANSI SQL model because those of us with long memories remember SQL Server 7.0 and Oracle 8i. Both products were...

  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    Some comments for various posts:

    anyone else tried reading the Oracle documentation

    I'm reading it almost every day I produce any code. tahiti.oracle.com then is my starting point and I've personally...

  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    Informix is dead, err I mean bought by IBM on 2001 😉

  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    If we are extending the subject so much I'd say that most probably everyone of these (List of database management systems) has some strengths 😉

  • RE: SQL or Oracle

    Define best. For me best is Oracle because I've used it for more than 10 years and just a little bit looked in SQL Server. Oracle for me would most...

  • RE: migration from sqlserver to oracle

    I'd say that to get performant code one simply needs to understand what each proc does and rewrite it from scracth. Because especially if your SQL Server version was a...

  • RE: DB Link from Oracle to SQL Server

    See here http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/dblink_commit.html and also discussion here http://www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/Remote-Select-opening-transaction why even distributed queries start transaction.

  • RE: Problems with CASE in WHERE

    You are quite strangely using "case" here I'd say that something like:

    WHERE hist = 2 and (PERSON.DATE is null or PERSON.DATE is not null)

    or (hist <> 2 and PERSON.DATE is...

  • RE: Oracle SQL*Plus to T-SQL

    mtougui (11/4/2008)


    The easiest way to convert rownum(oracle) to Oracle:

    select col1, col2, ....

    from tableX

    where

    clauses

    And rownum = 5

    In SQL Server and every other dbms it is equivalent to

    select col1, col2,...

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