Re: DBAs:Databases 1:10 (Oracle) 1:31 (SQL Server)

Gene Sais wrote:
> What Oracle calls a database is different from what SQLserver calls a
> database. SQLserver databases are equivalent to Oracle schema's.

Bzzzzt! Wrong (and not just you Gene - sorry to single you out). This has not been the case for nearly a decade! It makes me laugh every time someone states this, especially as I have no love for the M$ product. SQL Server has *exactly* the same schema support as Oracle *as well as* support for multiple databases hosted by a given instance. A more accurate way of thinking of databases in SQL Server is as another namespace level above schemas.

To keep this vaguely on topic, I wonder if the "number of databases" count for SQL Server is artificially boosted by the fact that for every instance a DBA manages, they can claim to be managing 5 or 6 databases for nothing - master, msdb, tempdb, pubs/northwind/adventureworks.

Ciao
Fuzzy
:-)

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