Re: Oracle versus MS Sql Server

From: Norman Dunbar <Norman.Dunbar_at_lfs.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:31:15 +0100
Message-ID: <E2F6A70FE45242488C865C3BC1245DA717E703@lnewton.leeds.lfs.co.uk>

We use some SQL Server boxes here and my colleague, the MSS guy, rants almost daily about the one major fly in the ointment with MSS.

It appears, and I have only his word for it, that MSS when installed on a server, requests a 'sorting sequence' either binary or some other choice. From that point onwards, EVERY database created on that server has to have the same sort order.

This makes life a bit difficult when he gets customer exports to import, and he has to find out the sort order before he can choose which server to install it on.

Shame !

Regards,
Norman.

Norman Dunbar			EMail:	Norman.Dunbar_at_LFS.co.uk
Database/Unix administrator	Phone:	0113 289 6265
				Fax:	0113 289 3146
Lynx Financial Systems Ltd.	URL:	http://www.Lynx-FS.com


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