Re: Oracle vs. MS SQL Server

Joel Garry wrote:

> "Richard" <qaz1521_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<b42sl1$aba$1$8302bc10_at_news.demon.co.uk>...
> > There is a comparison report from PC Magazine at
> > http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,4154,00.asp
>
> Fairly interesting comparison, although my anti-PC bias can't help but
> discount it. And "Two general tools, SQL*Plus and SQL*Plus Worksheet
> (its Java-based equivalent) let you run SQL queries against databases.
> You still can't stop a long-running query..." makes me wonder if they
> know about interrupt keys or those little x's in the upper right hand
> corner... and they didn't seem to know about batch loading, or top
> sessions explain plan.
>
> <snipped>

Makes me wonder whether you realize that closing a client session has zero affect on anything running on a server: It doesn't. You can't kill a running statement or procedure by closing the client.

Daniel Morgan Received on Thu Mar 06 2003 - 10:42:46 CST