On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, tonyrogerson_at_sqlserverfaq.com wrote:
>> Name me 1 application written in "portable" SQL that runs scalable
>> and performant on all those 3 platforms - it just doesn't exist. SQL
>> Server is NOT Oracle is NOT DB2.
>
> Its my stance too - ask Celko, I'm always bashing him because of his
> blindly following standards over scalability.
>
> But, its a real requirement that vendors trying to support multiple
> platforms face - just go and ask one who's application supports all
> three.
>
> Personally, I think each database should support full FIPS so we can
> have a professional standard approach that we could follow, and then
> if the particular query/problem trying to be solved doesn't scale we
> then resort to vendor extensions.
Does the application code accessing these databases also have compiler
independence?
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Galen Boyer
Received on Sun Feb 26 2006 - 19:05:02 CST
