Re: SQL server Vs Oracle

On Tue, 11 May 1999 09:48:14 -0700, rumours say that Greg Druian <gdruian_at_europa.com> might have written:

>A "universally acknowledged disaster?" Not in my experience, not by any means.
>I guess I haven't heard Access 95 referred to in this way before; BTW, where do
>we go to find the most up-to-date list of what is universally acknowledged?

>Abbot Cooper wrote:

>> 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.

Greg, Abbott's statement is not so much of an overstatement, although this is not so obvious to people who usually don't participate in newsgroups specifically referring to Access (while he does). A95 was so full of bugs (which were more obvious to developpers than to users), that whenever a person posts a question mentioning A95 in cdmsa, the routine prefix of the answering posts is "Get A97. Now, if you can't..."

Perhaps you haven't experienced so many bugs as other people did (I was one of them, and thankfully for a very short period, cause I started playing[1] professionally with Access two months before A97 launched, and I upgraded quickly), but there are many, many others who had.

<g> But, to be fair, Abbot should say "comp.databases.ms-access"ally acknowledged disaster...

[1] forgive the verb selection, but over here it's used so heavily and with so many diverse meanings for computer relative affairs, I saw fit to use it as such. no further explanation. --
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