Re: Which RDMS is best?

"Richard Hickling" <richard.hickling_at_skynet.be> a écrit dans le message news:
> I have a friend embarking on a medium-sized e-commerce development. Their
web
> development has been entirely using MS products. My friend is happy with
this
> environment - he hasn't been plagued by BSODs (to my surprise). He's
happy
> with ASP etc.
>
> I don't know enough about the MS world to give advice and I'm hesitant to
> suggest Linux for all this if for no other reason than that my friend
doesn't
> have Linux skills, and "if it's not broke ...".
>
> My concern is that they are about to migrate from Access to SQL Server 7.
I
> have heard that SQL Server 7 has grave reliability problems. It's GUI is
great
> though - very intuitive etc etc - it's the thing MS do best.
>
> Does anyone have comparitive experience (relatively recent) of SQL Server
7 and
> other databases in terms of reliability. We're talking 1000 - 10000
> transactions per hour peak to a database that will be perhaps a few gig in
> size.

The thing I don't like about SQL server is that it only runs on Windows... I would prefer Oracle just for that. Received on Tue Feb 01 2000 - 16:20:01 CST