Re: What so special about PostgreSQL and other RDBMS?

rkusenet wrote:

> "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote:-
>
>>And would you then ignore all of the security patches?
>>If you don't ... you still need to at least once a month, likely more
>>often, down your production database to apply them and reboot the
>>server.
>
>
> First you exaggerate that any 16 yrd old can bring down SQLServer
> and now you exaggerate the need to apply security patch. Did it occur
> to you that if your database server is safely behind the firewall,
> the need to apply security patches reduces drastically. Almost all
> of the security patches is only when your windows is exposed to
> the outside world.

I didn't exagerate anything ... I asked a question. Please note the question mark at the end of the sentence.

So you would, in fact, intentionally not apply Microsoft security patches to your database servers. That is certainly one choice.

> Our customers who run our application on SQL Server *always* use
> it behind the firewall and one of them has SQL Server up and running
> for more than 6 months. No problem for them.

Which is only possible if you never applied a security patch. Once again ... a choice.

>>For what possible benefit? I'm still looking for one thing Windows
>>can do that, for example, Linux can't do ... except perhaps steal
>>cycles from the CPU.
>
> This is a different issue. If you want to argue on this, I will
> not dispute with you. I also prefer unix over Win, but some of
> your criticism against SQLServer (just because it runs on Win only)
> is puerile and just shows your insecurity.
>
> Just curious: Have you ever worked with SQLServer.

I don't criticize it "just" because it only runs on Windows. That is just one argument among many. We could, for example, look at the inability to cluster servers without federating data and many other things. But that wasn't the point of the post to which I responded and I'm not interested in starting another meaningless flame war.

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