Re: SQL server Vs Oracle

Like everything else under the sun, SQL Server can be very easily ground to a halt be a poor design. The previous poster's "disaster" was undoubtedly of his own making I would venture to say. That doesn't prove that SQL Server is better, but it does refute the notion that SQL Server is a "disaster" in and of itself. If it were a disaster people would not be using it in the numbers which they do... Example: Access 95 is a universally acknowledged disaster. I would venture to say that there are probably more people using Access 2.0 rather than 95. The point is that people do _not_ use horrible software if they can avoid it.

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Nuno Souto wrote in message <7h94if$nmj$1_at_m2.c2.telstra-mm.net.au>...
>Kerry Scott <kerrysco_at_msn.com> wrote in message
>news:OIX0sX1m#GA.245_at_cpmsnbbsa03...
>> It is a "disaster", he says. And yet, there are so many running it with
>> plenty of users. I have heard this same argument for almost any software
you
>> care to mention. Experience tells me that "disastrous" software is often
as
>> not, the fault of a disastrous administrator.
>
>One day people in this industry are gonna learn that saying "there are so
many
>using <insert>" means absolutely nothing! Never believe the statements
>of a software manufacturer! No matter how big it is. Period.
>
>I still well remember the wild statements put out by MS early in the life
>of SQL-Server, making it look like a "fait-accompli" that all other
databases
>were crap. This sort of stuff was done by IBM early in the 60's and 70's,
>then many UNIX makers in the 80's (including ORACLE) and now we all
>have to suffer this idiocy again in the 90's. Will these guys never learn?
>Some of us have been around in this industry a bit longer than the latest
>MS re-invention of old software...
>
>As for the "disastrous administrator", I'd be VERY surprised to learn
>that a bad administrator can stuff up a SQL-Server database. After all,
>MS INSISTS that this product can be run by morons
>(read: MS-certified morons).
>
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>Cheers
>Nuno Souto
>nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au
>http://www.acay.com.au/~nsouto/welcome.htm
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Received on Tue May 11 1999 - 08:10:39 CDT