PJ6 wrote:
> I spent years developing with SQL Server, now I'm learning Oracle. It's like
> twice as expensive, seems to me a lot harder to maintain. I never ran into
> something I couldn't do in MS SQL - why exactly would anyone go through the
> extra expense and hassle of using Oracle instead? I'm not asking to get
> anyone mad - I'd just like to know a bit more about how Oracle is different
> (and supposedly better) to make my transition make a little more sense.
You apparently never tried to install MS SQL Server on Linux or Unix :-)
Also SQL Server (as shipped today) cannot scale either up or out.
I don't mean CPU, I mean big tables (storing LOBs is not what
constitutes a big table).
By all means I'm obviously not the one pushing Oracle, but there sure is
a difference ....
Cheers
Serge
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Serge Rielau
DB2 SQL Compiler Development
IBM Toronto Lab
Received on Wed Sep 21 2005 - 10:15:24 CDT
